Richard Ginika Izuora
An Igbosere Magistrate Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered that one Oluwafunmilayo Adisa, a 22-year-old lady, be remanded in the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) psychiatric department for evaluation.
The Police arraigned Adisa for allegedly drowning her one and half year old daughter.
Magistrate K.O. Doja-Ojo, who did not take the plea of Adisa; adjourned the case until June 26 for the outcome of the psychiatric evaluation
Earlier, the Prosecutor, DSP Yetunde Cardoso told the court that Adisa committed the offence on May 11; at about 8:20p.m. at Plot 222, 21/211 Road, Gowon Estate, Lagos.
Cardoso alleged that the suspect killed her one and half-year-old child, by drowning her inside a bucket of water.
According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened the provisions of Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Section 223 further provides for death as punishment for murder.
The Director, Office of the Public Defender, Lagos State; Dr Babajide Martins, prayed the court to remand his client in a hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
The suspect had confessed to drowning her baby because the child prevented her from going to university to study law and reportedly drowned the one-year and six months old baby inside a bucket of water in her apartment at Plot 22, Gowon Estate, Lagos, on Monday, May 11; and then reported herself to the Police.
She confessed to the police during interrogation that her baby deprived her of actualising her dream of becoming a lawyer.
According to her, she was impregnated by one Yusuf Folarin; while both were attending a Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, class at City of Success in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.