How a mother allegedly killed her son during the children's day celebration

One Funmilayo Adeyanju, hacked her three years
old son to death yesterday during the Children
Day's celebration in Ogunso area of Otta, Ado-
Odo/Otta local government area of Ogun State.

Adeyanju was said to have returned from
somewhere and had barely rested for about

30minutes when she picked up a kitchen knife
and attacked the boy.

She allegedly pinned her son called Emmanuel to
ground and savagely stabbed him in the chest,
abdomen, head and other parts of the body,
leaving him to die in a pool of his blood around
4pm on Wednesday.

It is not yet clear what provoked the killing, but
many people that are familiar with the
circumstance of the mother and child, claimed it
may not be unconnected with the trauma of the
relationship between the woman and her
biological father.

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer,
Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident
told the Nation newspaper thus:

“Policemen have been to the scene to recover
the body of the child. The woman has been
acting strangely like a person who is of unsound
mind. The police would carry out proper
investigation.

“The police will work on the state of mind of the
woman and we’ll have to seek the help of an
expert to know her mental state.”