32-year-old Kudirat allegedly tortured five-year-old stepdaughter for bed-wetting and disobedience. Kudirat and Rachael live in Okeore, Atan Ota, in the Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State.
The mother of one was arrested after a neighbour reported the alleged torture to the police at the Onipanu division. She was reportedly to have
beat Rachael for being “obstinate”,
adding that she only used brooms to beat her.
Rachael’s mother died five years ago when she was three months old. She was said to have been under the care of Kudirat , whom her father married a few years after.
She said,
“She is my stepdaughter and I
have been taking good care of her. But she is very stubborn. If I give
an instruction, she won’t follow it. She is bed-wetting and I have
cautioned her several times. She is also fond of stealing pieces of meat
from the pot of stew. I only beat her with brooms; I don’t use any
object on her. I promise not to beat her again.”
A police source told our correspondent
that the victim had been handed over to her father, Dele, who was made
to sign an undertaking that the girl would be properly taken care of
thenceforth.
The source said, “On May 30, a Good
Samaritan reported at the station that one Kudirat Oyediran of Okeore
was in the habit of constantly assaulting her stepdaughter, Rachael. As a
result, she sustained serious bruises on her back. The mother of the
victim died three months after her birth. Her father married the suspect
so she could take care of her. The woman has a six-month-old baby.
“The girl would have been transferred to
a motherless home, but her father and some community elders pleaded
that she should not be taken there. The father wrote an undertaking to
ensure her proper upkeep before she was released to him.”
The Ogun State Police Public Relations
Officer, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, in a text message, confirmed the woman’s
arrest, adding that the case would be charged to court.
He said, “The command has no tolerance for inhuman cases of such and will always fish out the culprits.”
Woman tortures five-year-old stepdaughter for bed-wetting
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