Woman inflicts machete cuts on 12-yr-old son over missing N500

Cruel. Wicked. Heartless. These were some of the negative adjectives residents used to describe a woman, Basirat Abiodun, after she allegedly inflicted machete cuts on her 12-year-old son, Timothy Jimoh, who she accused of stealing a sum of N500.

Basirat, had accused the boy of spending the alleged stolen money on candies.

The boy, according to sources, was asleep at their Adigbe, Abeokuta residence, penultimate Saturday when Basirat unleashed brutality on him.

Attempts by neighbours to rescue the boy were said to have fallen on Basirat’s deaf ears, who threatened to deal with them, for poiking their noses into her home.

She was said to have brought out a cutlass and inflicted cuts on the boy’s head, arm and legs. A bystander forced his way into Basirat’s apartment and rescued the boy, who was subsequently taken to a hospital for treatment.

Concerned neighbours reported the incident at Adigbe Police Division, and Basirat was arrested.

Sources said the money which Timothy spent on candies was actually given to him by a man who noticed they were hungry. It was the money that Basirat passed off for her money and subjected her son to brutality.

"The money was actually N100. Timothy and his younger sibling were actually hungry when a man saw them and gave them the money.

"Basirat had passed off the money for hers and instead of listening to his son’s explanation, she cruelly beat up the boy and inflicted machete cuts on him," a source who did not want her name in print said. From The Nation.