A suspected drug addict identified as Samson Sikiru, has been arrested for allegedly killing his mother, a prophetess, in Itanrin Axis of Ijebu Ode in Ogun State. According to Ogun journalist, Tosin, the 32-year-old suspect strangled his mother to death in the early hours of Sunday, 16th July, 2023. A distress call was made to Ijebu Rewa Organisation about the sad incident that happened overnight after Samson’s younger brother who was on night shift, had gone …
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A mother allegedly strangled her 11-year-old son to death so that he would not grow up and experience their family’s financial struggles. Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead, 50, told detectives that her son Matthew Whitehead was “crying off and on all day over the family’s financial difficulties”, according to an affidavit obtained by WPVI. Ruth added that she did not want her son growing up “with these struggles” and therefore used her husband’s belt to strangle him in his sleep. …
The Territorial Police in Isingiro district, Uganda, has arrested a man for allegedly killing his 8-month-old son. The Rwizi Regional Police Spokesperson, ASP Samson Kasasira, identified the suspect as Monday Julias, 27, a resident of Rwenturagara cell, Kyarubambura parish. According to ASP Kasasira, the suspect who is also a teacher at Green Stone Primary School allegedly strangled his son, Asiimwe Julius, to death on Sunday March 13, dumped the body in a swamp after a domestic misunderstanding with his wife, Atuhaire Gift,20. …
Men of the Abia state police command have arrested one Mrs Rose Uwaga for allegedly strangling her 83-year-old husband, Alhaji Isa Uwaga, in Umuahia, the state capital. Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the state police command, Geoffrey Ogbonnaya, said one of Uwaga’s children, Ibeabuchi, reported the matter to the police on July 2. Ibeachi told the police that he left home that morning with his parents quarrelling about an issue. He said he returned home later only to find his late …
A 42-year-old woman has been arrested by the police in Naivasha, Kenya for reportedly killing her 4 children (three girls and one boy) who are between the ages of 2 and 8 years. The mother of 6 identified as Beatrice Mwende Kimotho, allegedly locked her children in the house before giving them poison at Kabati Estate. K2TV reported that the police said they received a distress call from Jackson Kimani Kimotho, the woman’s brother saying that she had asked him to …