The police in Ogun State have arrested one 31 years old Shade Adelowo for using razor blade to inflict serious injuries on the body of one 11 years old Kehinde Ojo.
The injury was inflicted on the boy over an allegation that he stole N3,000 from her purse.
The suspect, a mother of two, who resides at Giwa Okearo area of Agbado, was arrested on Sunday following a report lodged at Agbado divisional headquarters by the victim’s mother.
According to DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, police spokesman in Ogun, it was reported that the suspect accused her son who often stayed with her whenever she was not around, of stealing the sum of N3000 from her purse, consequent upon which she used razor blade to inflict serious injuries on him.
Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer, 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 was not around stole N3000 from her purse, and that she didn’t know what came over her that made her to inflict such grievous injuries on the boy.
She further claimed that she had been taking care of the boy and his twin brother for quite some time now, and that what happened on that fateful day was devil’s handwork.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the mother of the victim had been abandoned by her husband who left her with three children and vanished into thin air.
The woman has been engaging in menial job to take care of the three children, and whenever she was going out for work, would take the children to the suspect who happened to be her neighbour.
She stated further that it was a thing of surprise for her when she saw what the suspect did to her son, because she had been very good to her in the past.
The victim has been taken to hospital for medical treatment and he is responding to treatment.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.
