Court sends mother, who drowned baby, for psychiatric evaluation
The Lagos State Magistrate's Court, Igboshere, yesterday, sent 22-year-old Adisa Olufunmilola, who drowned her one-year and nine months old baby in a bucket of water to the Psychiatric Department of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, for evaluation.
Magistrate K. O. Doja Ojo remanded Adisa following an application filed by Lagos State Office of Public Defender, OPD, to remand her at LASUTH.
Director, Lagos State Public Defender, OPD, Dr Babajide Martins, applied that the defendant be sent to and remanded at LASUTH “for psychiatric evaluation to help determine the state of her mental health.”
He based his application on Section 217 (3) of Lagos State Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL), 2015.
Magistrate Doja-Ojo granted the prayer and adjourned till June 26 for the outcome of the tests.
Adisa is suspected by the police to have drowned her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Oluwanifemi, in a bucket of water.
According to a temporary charge marked C/42d/2020 attached to the OPD’s application, “Adisa Oluwafunmilayo on May 11, 2020, at about 8:20 pm, at Plot 222, 21/211 Road Gowon Estate, Alimosho Local Government Area, Lagos unlawfully killed one Adisa Oluwanifemi, female, aged one and a half years, by drowning her in a bucket of water and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”
It was signed by Deputy Superintendent Yetunde Cardoso.
Speaking afterward, Martins said the OPD was representing Adisa in line with its statutory responsibility of providing free legal service for the indigent and vulnerable.
He said: “OPD came to her rescue by providing free legal representation and ensured that the suspect was timely moved from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti to Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Oshodi as an outpatient pending her arraignment before the court for further judicial action."
Culled from Vanguard
Magistrate K. O. Doja Ojo remanded Adisa following an application filed by Lagos State Office of Public Defender, OPD, to remand her at LASUTH.
Director, Lagos State Public Defender, OPD, Dr Babajide Martins, applied that the defendant be sent to and remanded at LASUTH “for psychiatric evaluation to help determine the state of her mental health.”
He based his application on Section 217 (3) of Lagos State Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL), 2015.
Magistrate Doja-Ojo granted the prayer and adjourned till June 26 for the outcome of the tests.
Adisa is suspected by the police to have drowned her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Oluwanifemi, in a bucket of water.
According to a temporary charge marked C/42d/2020 attached to the OPD’s application, “Adisa Oluwafunmilayo on May 11, 2020, at about 8:20 pm, at Plot 222, 21/211 Road Gowon Estate, Alimosho Local Government Area, Lagos unlawfully killed one Adisa Oluwanifemi, female, aged one and a half years, by drowning her in a bucket of water and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”
It was signed by Deputy Superintendent Yetunde Cardoso.
Speaking afterward, Martins said the OPD was representing Adisa in line with its statutory responsibility of providing free legal service for the indigent and vulnerable.
He said: “OPD came to her rescue by providing free legal representation and ensured that the suspect was timely moved from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti to Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Oshodi as an outpatient pending her arraignment before the court for further judicial action."
Culled from Vanguard
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