Woman Escapes With Daughter’s Corpse In Ondo Hospital After Beating Her To Death

Ondo State Police Command said they were trailing a woman who allegedly tortured her daughter to death and later escaped with her corpse from the state specialist hospital in Akure, the state capital.

The command spokesman, Mr. Femi Joseph, who confirmed the incident to journalists on Thursday, 22nd August 2019, said efforts were being made to track the woman in order to know the exact details of the girls death.

The woman whose identity is yet to be ascertained was said to have rushed her daughter suspected to be about 4 years of age to the Ondo State University Teaching Hospital, Akure Annex for treatment, Wednesday night with marks suspected to be from horsewhip visible on the girl’s body.

According to some members of staff of the hospital, the woman escaped with the child’s corpse which was brought to the Children’s Outpatients Department (COPD) of the hospital shortly after she was told the child had died. A source said:

“The woman brought in her daughter to the hospital at the children’s emergency ward for treatment.

“As we tried to attend to her, we noticed that she had maltreated the girl to the point of death.

“If you see the body of the girl, it was a case of child abuse as there were marks all over her body.

“By the time the doctor on duty could rushed to attend to her, it was discovered that she even brought the child dead.

“The doctor had to quickly tell the woman that the young girl she brought to the hospital was dead already.

“Before you know it, the woman grabbed the girl and ran away from the hospital.”

However, one of the doctors on duty when the incident occurred confirmed the incident, noting that the child was brought in dead by the mother.

The doctor, who asked not to be named, however, said all efforts to trace the woman, who is currently on the run, had not yielded any result. He said:

“Immediately she (the woman) brought in the child dead to the hospital, we tried to resuscitate her but it was too late.

“Before we knew it, the woman grabbed the corpse of her child and ran outside the hospital. All effort to trace her has since then had proven difficult.”

Administrative Secretary of the hospital, Dayo Owoseni, also confirmed the incident to newsmen saying, “I only heard about the incident this morning and we have called on the doctor on duty to come over and explained what happened to us.”