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Police on Thursday arraigned a 52-year-old man, Taiwo Olaniyan, at the Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, for allegedly causing the death of his unborn child.
The police arraigned the defendant on a three-count charge bordering on assault and causing the death of an unborn child.
The prosecutor, Cpl. Akeem Akinloye, told the court that the defendant in May 2018 assaulted his wife, Rukayat Babajide, and inflicted injury on her.
He said that the defendant caused the death of the foetus due to the assault on his wife during pregnancy.
The prosecutor said the couple had been married for 14 years with two children.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Olabisi Ogunkanmi, who did not take the defendant’s plea for lack of jurisdiction, ordered his remand in Agodi correctional facility, Ibadan.
Ogunkanmi held that the defendant would remain in custody pending receipt of advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
She, thereafter, adjourned the matter till December 12 for mention.
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