A Magistrate court in Akure, Ondo State, has sentenced a 36-year-old housewife – Mrs. Opeyemi Omoyemi – to four-and-half-years imprisonment for infliction razor blade cuts on her house boy – Joel Sunday, 12.
She claimed the boy stole meat from her soup pot. She is to serve the sentence of the court with hard labour.
While Opeyemi got three-and-a-half years imprisonment for causing grievous harm, she also bagged one year imprisonment on violence against another person among others.
The sentence of Omoyemi was sequel to her arraignment before a Magistrate Court on a five-count charge.
The defendant reportedly used stick and razor blade to inflict multiple injuries on the body of the house help, after accusing him of stealing pieces of meat from her soup pot.
Opeyemi committed the offence on February 6, 2022, at her residence located at Idi Mango, in the Adewale axis of Ondo road, Akure.