Osun Police Command has said that the woman, who was arrested for drowning her two daughters in a well in Osogbo, will be evaluated by psychiatrists to know her mental state.
The command’s spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, made this known while briefing reporters on the incident at the state police headquarters in Osogbo on Thursday.
The woman was arrested on Tuesday November 2, after she told neighbors who asked of her kids’ whereabouts that she drowned them “because their glory had been stolen”.
She said that the woman was currently being held at the State Criminal Investigations Department (CID), adding that she had confessed to drowning her daughters.
“It is pathetic that no one saw the culprit when she perpetrated the act on Monday night.
“The culprit, who lives around Oke Baale area, Osogbo, was said to be having some kind of mental problem.
“She was said to have been deported and it is assumed that, maybe the deportation affected her mentally.
“When interrogated, she said she did it; that she drowned her daughters and her owning to the crime without remorse gives suspicion to the speculations that she might be having some mental problem.
“She is still with the state CID and the bodies of her daughters (aged five and eight) were recovered yesterday (Wednesday), with the help of fire service.
“It took serious efforts from Tuesday to retrieve the dead bodies from the well because the well was filled with water, but the bodies of the girls have been deposited at the mortuary.” the police spokesperson said.
The police spokesperson, however, said the family of the culprit should have rallied round her and taken her for treatment.
She added that when the family noticed that she was mentally unstable, they should have also taken her children into their custody.
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