One Funmilayo Adeyanju, hacked her three
years old son to death yesterday during the Children Day’s celebration in
Ogunso area of Otta, Ado-Odo/Otta local government area of Ogun State.
Adeyanju was said to have returned from somewhere and had barely
rested for about 30minutes when she picked up a kitchen knife and
attacked the boy.
She allegedly pinned her son called Emmanuel to ground and savagely
stabbed him in the chest, abdomen, head and other parts of the body,
leaving him to die in a pool of his blood around 4pm on Wednesday.
It is not yet clear what provoked the killing, but many people that
are familiar with the circumstance of the mother and child, claimed it
may not be unconnected with the trauma of the relationship between the
woman and her biological father.
The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who
confirmed the incident told the Nation newspaper thus:
“Policemen have been to the scene to recover the body
of the child. The woman has been acting strangely like a person who is
of unsound mind. The police would carry out proper investigation.
“The police will work on the state of mind of the woman and we’ll have to seek the help of an expert to know her mental state.”