Housewife Beats 11-Year Old Boy To Death

LUCKY LAWAL

A 47-year old housewife, Joy Egeonu, was arrested on Wednesday 6th February, 2019, by men of the Ogun State Police Command for beating her husband’s 11-year old nephew to death over allegation that the deceased stole her N6,500.

According to the Police Public Relations Officer, the housewife was arrested following a report by the deceased’s mother, Ijeoma Egeonu, at Agbado Divisional Police headquarters that her son who was living with her elder brother and his wife at Opeilu in Agbado was beaten to death by her brother’s wife over an allegation that the boy, Chibuike Egeonu, stole the sum of N6,500 belonging to the said woman.

She stated further that the incident happened on 3rd February, 2019, and that the woman took the corpse of the boy to Ifo where she hurriedly buried him.

On the strength of the report, the DPO Agbado Division, CSP Omonijo Olatunji, led his detectives to the scene where the woman was promptly arrested.
On interrogation, the suspect claimed to have suspected the boy as the person who stole her money which prompted her to flog the boy to the point of coma. She further stated that the boy gave up the ghost while she was taking him to the hospital and that it was later discovered that the missing money was taken by her husband and not the deceased as suspected. She has since taken detectives to where the boy was hurriedly buried.

Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further
investigation. He further ordered the arrest other suspects including the husband who assisted in the burying of the boy in order to cover up his wife’s criminal act.