Police arrest woman who burnt boy with hot knife over missing N5000

 Police arrest woman who burnt boy with hot knife over missing N5000

By Emmanuel Awosika

The Ogun State Police Command has on Monday detained a woman, Iswat Taofeek, who brutalised a teenaged boy living with her using a hot knife.

Taofeek said she suspected the boy of stealing money totaling N5000 which she kept in the house.

She confessed to burning the victim’s body with a red-hot knife to make him confess about his role in the issue of missing money.

The suspect also told police investigators that the boy is her brother-in-law’s son and has been in her care for a while.

Police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed that the suspect was apprehended on Monday morning following a report from a concerned neighbour.

According to him, the neighbour had brought the boy to the Adatan Police Station before filing a complaint against Taofeek.

He revealed that the boy lost consciousness while the report was being filed, adding that sympathisers rushed him to a near-by hospital.

Of the suspect, Oyeyemi said plans were underway to transfer her to the Anti-human Trafficking and Child Labour unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department(SCIID) for investigation and prosecution.

 

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