The Osun State Police Command has said that the woman who dumped her two daughters into a deep well to drown in Koledowo, Ibuaje area of Osogbo on Monday will be given a psychiatric evaluation to ascertain her state of mind and mental health.
The spokesperson of the Command, Yemisi Opalola, while speaking newsmen, disclosed that the woman was currently being held at the State Criminal Investigations Department (CID), adding that she had confessed to drowning her daughters.
Opalola stated that it was pathetic that no one saw the culprit when she perpetrated the act on Monday night.
While disclosing that a psychiatric hospital had been contacted to evaluate her as the police would not work on assumptions, the spokesperson said that upon interrogation, the culprit confessed that she did dump her daughters into the well to drown.
According to Opalola, “Confessing to the crime without remorse gives suspicion to the speculation that she may have been dealing with some mental issues.
“She is still with the state CID and the bodies of her daughters; aged five and eight were recovered yesterday on Wednesday with the help of Fire Service.”
She explained that the efforts to recover their bodies from the well were hard because the well was filled with water adding that the corpses of the girls have been deposited at the mortuary.
While noting that the family of the culprit should have rallied around her and taken her for proper treatment, Opalola stated that the girls should have been taken away from her custody when signs of mental instability became noticeable.
“If the family of the culprit had taken charge of her situation, the death of the children would have been averted,” she said.
