A 40 years old housewife, Iswat Taofeek, has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for dehumanising a 12 years old boy living with her.
The woman, according to the spokesman of the police in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, is a resident of 36 Isoka, Kugba, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The suspect was arrested at about 8:30am on Monday, November 23, following a complaint by one of her neighbours who came to Adatan police station with the little boy.
Oyeyemi said the boy’s body was full of injuries inflicted on him with a hot knife and cutlass.
While the report was being lodged, the boy fainted at the station and was quickly rushed to a hospital for medical attention.
On the strength of the report, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Adatan Division, CSP Samuel Aladegoroye, detailed his detectives to the woman’s house where she was promptly arrested.
On interrogation, the suspect explained that the little boy is a son to her brother-in-law and he has been living with her for some time.
She stated further that she kept the sum of N5,000 somewhere in the house but couldn’t find it and she believed that it was the boy who stole it.
She said that was why she put a knife on fire until it was red hot before she used it to burn the little boy all over his body.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has ordered the transfer of the case to anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.
