Shocking! Father kills 4-month-old son for rituals in Kogi state

                                                             Suspect exhuming his son's corpse

Police in Kogi state have arrested a middle-aged man, Mr Hosea Folorunsho in Egbe town of Yagba West local government council for the alleged gruesome murder of his four-month-old son for ritual purpose.

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Briefing journalists on the arrest in the Kogi state capital, Lokoja, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Katsina says the suspect, a herbalist, also buried the child in a shallow grave in his own compound.

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Mr Mohammed Katsina while parading the suspect, Chief Hosea Folorunsho, at the state command headquarters, Lokoja, disclosed that on December 31, 2012, the herbalist killed his son for alleged ritual.

Narrating the police investigation, the police boss disclosed that on the New Year’s Eve, at about 11:55PM, the suspect quietly took the baby named Sunday Folorunsho who was asleep in the middle of the night and murdered him in gruesome circumstances.

He also added that having accomplished his mission, the suspect dug a shallow grave in his compound and hurriedly buried the corpse of the baby.

The police escorted Mr. Hosea Folorunsho to his compound where the baby’s corpse was buried and he was then asked to exhume the corpse.

After digging out the corpse of the baby, he handed over the body to a pathologist who conducted an autopsy on the dead baby.

The autopsy result showed that the child died of multiple fractures through the application of blunt object and trauma.

The 48-year-old suspect, a native of Egbe in Yagba West Local Government Area (LGA) of the state is married with three other children.