An Osogbo Chief Magistrate’s Court, on Tuesday, remanded a couple, Mr
Ajibaye Elikana, 49 and Elizabeth Ajibaye, in prison custody, for
allegedly pouring hot charcoal on their child.
The accused persons were said to have committed the offence on
January 2, 2013 at Okinni in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun
State.
According to the charge sheet by the police Prosecutor, Sergeant
Elisha Olusegun, the duo conspired among themselves and caused bodily
harm on their 12-year-old son, David Ajibaye.
He informed the court that the accused binded the hands and legs of
their son with rope and bathed him with charcoal all over his body.
Olusegun added that after the boy was bathed with hot charcoal, he
was thrown out into the street but was rescued by a Good Samaritan,
after some days, and taken to the state police central juvenile welfare
centre.
He said it was after the boy was brought to the Welfare Centre at Oja
Oba, that the accused persons were arrested and charged to court of
law, for their trial over the matter.
Sergeant Olusegun told the court that the duo accused persons, had
committed punishable offence under sections 516, 335 and 351 of the
Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol. 11 Laws of Osun of Nigeria 2003.
However, both accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges
against them, and their counsel, Mr O. O. Alabi, applied for their bail
on the most liberal term, adding that they would provide reliable
sureties if the bail was granted.
Delivering his ruling, the presiding magistrate, Adebayo Lasisi,
ordered the accused persons to be remanded in Ilesha Maximum Prison
Custody.
Magistrate Lasisi also said that the boy should be brought to the
court on the next day of adjournment in order to ascertain his condition
and later adjourned the case till January 25, 2013.
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