A Makurdi High court has
sentenced a housewife, Mrs. Ternenge Terso to death by hanging for murder of
her husband’s one year old son.
The child was from the
husband’s second wife. The convict, a 38 year
old woman was said to have been married to her husband for seven years before
the incidence and could not conceive, a development which made him to go and
marry a second wife.
Not happy that the second
wife immediately after marriage conceived and had a baby, the woman was said to
have one day forcefully snatched the baby from the second wife’s nanny and
strangled him to death.
The husband later
reported her to the police in 2012 that she retrieved the baby from the nanny
and strangled him to death.
When the case came up,
she denied but was not showing any remorse. She testified for herself and
called no witness to support her claim.
Meanwhile, prosecution
called two witnesses including the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) who
tendered a medical report of the autopsy carried out on the deceased baby at
General Hospital, Vandeikya.
Delivering judgement ,
the Judge, Justice Jennifer Ijohor said evidence before her showed prosecution
has proved the case beyond reasonable doubt that to warrant the conviction of
the convict.
She advised barren women
to look up to God instead of taking laws into their hands by engaging in
nefarious acts.
The convict was later
taken to the federal minimum prisons Makurdi where she is awaiting execution.
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