A 31-year-old woman, Shade Adelowo, have been arrested by the police in Ogun State, for allegedly using razor blade to infl*ct serious injuries on her neighbor’s 11-year-old son, in Agbado area of the state.
The suspect, a mom of two, who was arrested on Sunday, October 24, accused the victim of stealing N3k from her purse.
She was arrested following a report lodged at Agbado divisional headquarters by the victim’s mother, who reported that the suspect accused her son who used to stay with her whenever she is not around of stealing the sum of N3k from her purse, consequent upon which she used razor blade to infl*ct serious injuries all over his body.
According to the command’s spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, “Upon the report, the DPO Agbado division, CSP Kehinde Kuranga, detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested.
On interrogation, she claimed that the victim who used to stay with her whenever his mother is not around stole N3K from her purse, and that she didn’t know what come over her that made her to infl*ct such grievous injuries on the boy. She further claimed that she has been taken care of the boy and his twin brother for quiet some time now, and that what happened on that fateful day is devil’s handwork.”
Oyeyemi said a preliminary investigation revealed that the mother of the victim has been abandoned by her husband who left her with three children and vanished to thin air.
“The woman has been engaging in menial jobs to take care of the three children, and whenever she is going out for work, she will take the children to the suspect who happened to be her neighbor. She stated further that it was a thing of surprise for her when she saw what the suspect did to her son, because she has been very good to her in the past.”
