Adeeko "Woman who abandoned her 2 children in Lagos" asked to do 1 month community service

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court in Lagos State, on Thursday, sentenced a 40-year-old mother to one month community service for abandoning her two children at a railway crossing in Ilupeju...


The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, gave the order following the guilty plea of the mother and her appeal that the court should be lenient because one her children was sick.

"You are hereby sentenced to one month community service at the Children Centre, Idi Araba, Lagos, where you must perform any duty assigned to you for two hours each day for the next one month.

"Under the child right law, it’s an offense to abandon your child to the government to care for them," Osunsanmi said.

She added that the convict should report at the Ministry of Women and Poverty Alleviation Centre after serving her sentence.

"You are to report to the WAPA office at Alausa where you will be trained to be self-sufficient and how you are to appropriately care for all your children. They are your responsibility," Osunsanmi said.

The chief magistrate also ordered that the children be kept in the government children's home.
Earlier at her arraignment on November 24, the prosecutor, Inspector Simon Imhonwa, told the court that the offence was committed on August 10 at about 3:00 p.m.

"Adeeko abandoned her children aged 13 and 15 and absconded without any care. She exposed them to harm and exploitation. She could not reasonably explain the reason for her action," Imhonwa said.
The prosecutor said the case was reported at Alakara Police Station and subsequently to the Ministry of Youth and Social Development.

He said the offence contravened Section 276 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.