Mrs Funmi Otitoloju allegedly brutalized her 12-year-old niece
identified only as Adeola, in the Baiyeku community of Ikorodu. Otitoloju used a razor blade to cut the girl in the neck and hand
because she entered other people’s apartments without her permission after a neighour had reported to Otitoloju that the victim stole from her room.
The
incident occurred on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at about 6am, after which a
Good Samaritan rushed the victim to a general hospital but the hospital refused to treat Adeola insisting on a police report.
A worker with the Child Protection
Network in the Ikorodu area was said to have been invited and the worker
reported the matter at the Ikorodu Police Division.The police, thereafter, arrested Otitoloju, while the victim was treated at the hospital.
The police on Monday arraigned Otitoloju on two counts bordering on child abuse at the Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court, Ikorodu.
The charges read, “That you, Funmi
Otitoloju, on June 9, at about 6.30am on Sambi Street, Off Macaulay
area, off Baiyeku Road, in the Ikorodu Magisterial District, did assault
one Adeola, 12 years old, with a razor blade on her right hand and
neck, causing her bodily harm, and thereby committing an offence
contrary to and punishable under Section 171 of the Criminal Law of
Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.
“That you, Funmi Otitoloju, on the same
date, time and place in the aforementioned magisterial district, did
unlawfully and indecently deal with a child, thereby committing an
offence punishable under Section 135 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State
of Nigeria, 2011.”
The accused pleaded guilty to the charges.
The razor blade was presented as an exhibit in court.
The Magistrate, Mrs. A.A. Oshoniyi, sentenced Otitoloju to four years’ imprisonment with no option of fine.
Woman bags four-year in jail for cutting her 12-year-old niece with razor blade
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