UPDATE: Court Sentence Woman Arrested For Torturing Stepchildren

• A woman accused of physically abusing her step children has been sentenced by a magistrate court.

• Daily Report Nigeria gathers that the woman was accused of abusing her step children of age 2 and 3.

An housewife, identified as Fatima Abubakar, 37 has been who was arrested by operatives of the Adamawa state police command has bagged jail term.

Fatima was arrested in Yola South Local Government Area, was arrested on October 5, 2024, for torturing her stepchildren, Usman Abubakar, 3, and Hafsat Abubakar, 2.

Sentencing Famima, alongside her husband and father of the children, Abubakar Yuguda, the chief Magistrate court sitting in Yola, Adamawa state, and presided by Magistrate M. A. Adamu, found Fatima guilty, and sentenced her to one year in prison, as well as to pay N100,000 to the government as well as N150,000 as medical bills for the treatment of the two children that she maltreated.

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The husband on the other hand was granted bail after meeting the conditions.

Abubakar was admitted to bail after he fulfilled the conditions for it, and the court adjourned his matter for the continuation of hearing.