Ondo woman identified as Mrs. Opeyemi Omoyemi, set preparing for the final showdown between Senegal and Egypt in the Africa Cup of Nations tournament on February 6, 2022, Opeyemi dashed home to count the meat in her pot of soup. Suddenly she realised that one piece of meat, the juiciest out of all the meats in was missing.
Hell was left loose as Opeyemi dashed in furiously and, like a person possessed, left her two children for she believed that they were not meat their. She pounced on her house help identified as Joel Sunday, beating him blue and black.
Despite the boy crying for mercy and calling for neighbours’ help, the spirit that took possession of Mrs Opeyemi would not budge. Not satisfied with the first beating, the spirit took hold of her and asked her to look for razor blade to make patterns on the little boy’s body.
This she did and blood gushed out of Joel’s body as he wept uncontrollably. As blood was oozing out of little Joel’s body and his life gradually eebed away, the neighbours, knowing if the boy died in the house they would not be spared by the police, quickly and quietly called the police. Pronto they came to whisk Madam Opeyemi away to their station and the little boy in pain was rushed to Police Hospital for medical attention.
There was uproar in the town as people wanted to see the culprit who did such a dastardly act. In government circles too, the state has passed a law prohibiting harmful acts against persons in the state.
The 36 years old Mrs. Opeyemi Omoyemi was therefore dragged before an Akure Magistrate Court and she was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment for inflicting heavy body injuries on his 12-year-old house help identified as Joel Sunday.
Omoyemi was arraigned on a five-count charge of attempted murder, child abuse and violence against persons prohibition among others.
The defendant was said to have used stick and razor blade to inflict multiple injuries on the body of the house help whom she accused of stealing pieces of meat from her pot of soup.
Delivering her Judgement, Chief Magistrate Olufunmilayo Edwin sentenced the defendant to three and half years on the first count charge of grievous harm she inflicted on the victim in the viral video.
The defendant was also sentenced to one year imprisonment on count five.
The defendant at the last sitting had pleaded guilty to three of the charges leveled against her.
Before the Chief Magistrate delivered the judgement, counsel to the defendant, Foluso Kayode, had asked the court to be lenient with his client.
He added that his client was a first offender, stressing that she had not been arrested for any inhuman behaviour before now.
The magistrate also ruled that the defendant should appear in court in April 13 on count four bordering on human trafficking.
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