Man beheads two-year-old boy, rapes mother

Police in Ogun State have arrested a middle-aged man, Mahmud Bashir Ibrahim, for allegedly beheading a two-year-old boy in Ofada community in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area.
The suspect was said to have committed the crime on Saturday shortly after raping the mother of the infant. Ibrahim reportedly sold the severed head of the boy to an unknown woman in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The suspect, who was identified as a national of Niger Republic, allegedly attacked the unsuspecting mother of the boy while easing herself in a nearby bush in Ofada. According to sources, the suspect pounced on the woman and dragged her and the infant into an uncompleted building where he committed the rape.
The suspect also stabbed the woman and killed the boy before he later severed his head. He immediately fled to Ibafo area of the local government where the long arm of the law eventually caught up with him on Wednesday.
After his arrest, the suspect yesterday led men of the State Criminal Investigation Department to the crime scene where the knife he used to perpetrate the act was discovered. Scores of residents of Ofada attempted to lynch the suspect but policemen prevent ed the situation from going out of hand.
The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident yesterday, said the suspect was arrested through the help of some community leaders. Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, disclosed that the suspect revealed during interrogation that he had sold the head of the boy to an unknown woman in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
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