Man beats 2-month-old daughter to death for persistent crying

A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Osogbo, Osun State, for allegedly beating his daughter to death.

The state Commissioner for Women, Children and Social Affairs, Olubukola Olaboopo, in a statement, said the suspect identified as Sanjo, who lived around the Alekuwodo area, had been handed over to the police.

The commissioner, who said the ministry got wind of the crime through a source, said government officials moved in and arrested the suspect.

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The statement quoted Sanjo as saying he got married to his wife in 2008 and they had five children.

“It was the third child that I beat unintentionally to death.

“My wife left the child with me and she started crying. I did all I could to placate her, but she kept crying. Something just came upon me and I beat the two months old baby to death. My wife and I buried the child on our farmland,” he added.

But the statement said Sanjo’s wife, while being interrogated, claimed that four of their five children had died, leaving them with only the last child.

The woman said she conspired with her husband to kill two of the children due to poverty, while they dumped one child around the Osogbo Technical School area.