A commercial driver, Mayowa Adeyemo, 32, on Tuesday, appeared before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for battering his 18-month-old son.
Mayowa was alleged to have beaten the victim with sticks and burnt several parts of his body with lighted cigarettes.
Fagboyinbo added that the defendant exploited the victim; an act he noted was injurious to the welfare of the child. A picture of the victim obtained from security sources showed injuries on his body as a result of the torture he was allegedly subjected to by the defendant.He said he was under a spell and identified his mother as the person behind his ordeal.
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