A Nigerian Woman who was arrested on the 7 February for brutalizing her houseboy has been sentenced to three and half years.
The 36--years old woman identified as Omoyemi Opeyemi was on Monday February 14, sentenced to three and half years imprisonment by a magistrate court sitting in Akure, Ondo state, for brutalizing her 12-year -old house-boy, Joel Sunday.
The woman was arrested after torturing the boy with a razor blade at their house in Adebowale street, Akure, Ondo state. Mr Emmanuel Tanimowo, the police prosecutor, while narrating the incident, said a community health worker, Mrs Alice Ayedun, had reported the case to the police. he further stated that during the interrogation, Omoyemi had confessed to the crime saying that the boy had stolen her meat and made her obtain a debt of N100,000
Opeyemi was charged to court on a five count charges: attempted murder, child abuse, violence against person among others. She was declared guilty of count one, four and five. and was sentenced to three and half years in imprisonment.
In his statement, Tanimowo said;
“Mrs Alice Ayedun was going to church when she saw Joel Sunday crying, with blood on his body and the woman was forced to stop and see what was happening; she saw the defendant beating up the boy at the back of the house.
“She immediately rescued the boy from the woman. The defendant had asked the boy to wash the blood off his body after she used a razor blade to cut his body and made open injuries.
“In order to rescue the boy from the woman, Ayedun told her that she was a nurse and that she was taking the boy to a hospital for treatment. The woman later took the boy to the Fanibi Police Station to report the matter, which led to the arrest of the defendant.
“At the police station, she confessed to the crime and that she observed that the boy had packed all the meats in her pot of soup. She said immediately the boy saw her, he tried to run away, but she held him. She later took him to the sitting room where she used the razor blade to cut various parts of the boy’s body. The boy was later taken to the police clinic and currently undergoing treatment, but still in a critical condition.”
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