The Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 35-year-old woman, Monsurat Olusanya, for allegedly inflicting injuries on a four-year-old girl with a hot knife, in Tiluwalase community, Owode Ijako area of Ogun State.
When arrested, the woman blamed the devil for her actions. She said that the victim, Fathia Ogundimu, who is her niece, poured her pot of soup away.
IgbereTV gathered that the little girl had been living with the suspect for close to one year. One of the residents said to have seen the victim in pains last Friday, approached her to know what was wrong, only to discover the injuries on her back. The angry resident, took the victim to Sango Police Division, after which the Divisional Police Officer, CSP Godwin Idehai, instructed some detectives to the scene to effect Olusanya’s arrest.
The Ogun State Police Command Spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest and said that the suspect who accused the girl of mistakenly pouring a pot of soup away, put a knife on fire and used the hot knife to inflict injuries all over her body. Not satisfied, she gave the little girl human bite on her stomach and lips.
On interrogation, she admitted being responsible for the injuries on the victim’s body but pleaded to be lenient with her, claiming that devil pushed her to do it. The victim has been taken to hospital for medical treatmeent.
The biological parents of the victim have been contacted to come and take custody of their daughter while the suspect who is a mother of three is currently being detained at Sango division.
Also, the Commissioner of Police CP Bashir Makama, has directed that the suspect be charged to court as an investigation is concluded. He advised parents to know the type of people they give their children to if there is need to do so, as many of the so-called guardians are in the habit of maltreating other people’s children.
