A Magistrates’ Court docket sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, has ordered the remand of a 37-year-old nurse, Kehinde Adesanya, over alleged conspiracy, tried abortion and homicide.
Adesanya is dealing with a four-count cost bordering on conspiracy, try to obtain abortion and homicide.
The police prosecutor, Solomon Babalola, filed an ex parte movement in search of the remand of the defendant pending authorized recommendation from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Babalola urged the court docket to remand Adesanya for an preliminary interval of 60 days on the Ibara Correctional Centre.
He informed the court docket that the alleged offences have been dedicated between January and March within the Ikereku space of Laderin, Abeokuta.
In line with the prosecutor, the defendant conspired with others nonetheless at massive to obtain an abortion for one Victoria Ariyo, a 23-year-old corps member serving in Abeokuta.
Ariyo was reported to have died from suspected problems arising from the process and was buried final week.
The prosecutor added that the offences contravene Sections 516, 230, 324 and 319 of the Felony Code Legal guidelines of Ogun State, 2006.
He additional knowledgeable the court docket that one Abass Olalekan, an official of the Nationwide Youth Service Corps (NYSC), alleged to have impregnated the deceased, had earlier been arraigned and granted bail.
In her ruling, the Justice of the Peace, Mrs O.O. Sam-Obaleye, granted the prosecution’s utility and ordered that the defendant be remanded on the Ibara Correctional Centre pending authorized recommendation from the DPP.
The case was adjourned till Could 26 for point out.
Times Nigeria