The Osun State Government announced on Sunday that a resident in Osogbo, the state capital, was arrested by police for beating his child to death.
In a statement released by the state Commissioner for Women, Children, and Social Affairs Mrs. Olubukola Olaboopo, the 43-year-old suspect, who lived in the Alekuwodo area, had been handed over to the police.
The law enforcement agents moved in and arrested the suspect, according to Olaboopo, who claimed the ministry learned of the crime through a source.
In the statement, Sanjo said he got married to his wife in 2008 and they had five children.
“It was the third child that I beat unintentionally to death.
“My wife left the child with me and she started crying. I did all I could to placate her, but she kept crying. Something just came upon me and I beat the two-month-old baby to death. My wife and I buried the child on our farmland,” he added.
However, Sanjo’s wife claimed that four of their five children had died, having left with only one child, that she and her husband plotted to kill two of the children due to poverty, while the other was dumped near the Osogbo Technical School.
Olaboopo warned that acts of violence and child abuse would not be tolerated by the state government and that anyone caught would face the full force of the law.
