A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Akure, Ondo State, on Wednesday remanded in prison custody a couple who allegedly killed their co-tenant’s three-month-old baby girl with a hard object during a fight.
The toddler was said to be playing in the passage when the couple picked up a quarrel with her mother resulting in a scuffle.
It
was learnt that Mr. Oluwaseun Oluwatoba (27) and his wife, Omolara
(19), allegedly hit the baby, Roseline Adebisi, on the head with “a hard
blunt object” around 7:25pm at Ajebandele Street, Akure last week
Wednesday.
When the case came up for hearing on Wednesday, Police
prosecutor argued that the alleged offence was contrary to and
punishable under Section 324 of the Criminal Code Cap 37 Laws of Ondo
State 2006.
The Prosecutor, Mr. Pelumi Adejuwon, an Assistant
Superintendent of Police, prayed that the couple be remanded in prison
custody to enable him to send the duplicate of the case file to the
Ministry of Justice for legal advice.
Chief Magistrate Omotosho Akinyele therefore ordered that the couple be remanded in prison custody.
He
also ordered that the duplicate of the case file be sent to the
ministry for appropriate legal advice and subsequently adjourned the
case till January 17 for mention.
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