Stepmom tortures five-year-old girl for bed-wetting

32-year-old Kudirat Oyediran who lives in Okeore, Atan Ota, in the Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun state has been arrested by the police in Ogun State have arrested for allegedly inflicting injuries on her stepdaughter, Rachael Oyediran. It was gathered that Kudirat who happen to be a hairdresser allegedly tortured the five-year-old for bed-wetting and disobedience.

The young girl whose mother died five years ago when she was three months old has been under the care of the suspect, whom her father married a few years after. The mother of one was apprehended after a neighbour reported the alleged torture to the police at the Onipanu division. The Abeokuta, Ogun State indigene, reportedly told the police that she beat Rachael for being “obstinate”, adding that she only used brooms to beat her.

She said, “She is my stepdaughter and I have been taking good care of her. But she is very stubborn. If I give an instruction, she won’t follow it. She is bed-wetting and I have cautioned her several times. She is also fond of stealing pieces of meat from the pot of stew. I only beat her with brooms; I don’t use any object on her. I promise not to beat her again.”

A police source told punch that the victim had been handed over to her father, Dele, who was made to sign an undertaking that the girl would be properly taken care of thenceforth.

The source said, “On May 30, a Good Samaritan reported at the station that one Kudirat Oyediran of Okeore was in the habit of constantly assaulting her stepdaughter, Rachael. As a result, she sustained serious bruises on her back. The mother of the victim died three months after her birth. Her father married the suspect so she could take care of her. The woman has a six-month-old baby.

“The girl would have been transferred to a motherless home, but her father and some community elders pleaded that she should not be taken there. The father wrote an undertaking to ensure her proper upkeep before she was released to him.”