Categories: Crimes

Court sends mother to prison for killing one-month-old son

A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in the Makurdi area of Benue State has remanded a 21-year-old mother, Doowuese Paul, at the Makurdi Correctional Centre for allegedly killing her one-month-old son, Terhile Chupa, in the Gboko Local Government Area of the state.

Paul was charged with culpable homicide.

When the case came up, the Chief Magistrate, Regina Alashi, did not take her plea for want of jurisdiction.

Alashi adjourned the matter until March 12, 2026, for further mention.

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Earlier, the prosecutor, Inspector Friday Kanshio, told the court that the case was transferred from ‘B’ Division Police Station, Gboko to State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Makurdi via a letter.

The prosecutor said the letter stated that on December 14, 2025, the police at Gboko received a distress call from an unidentified person that the defendant had strangled her one-month-old baby to death in the house of one of her friends, Ashiekaa Shieminenge.

The defendant was arrested during police investigation for committing the crime which contravenes Section 222 of the Penal Code Law of Benue, 2004.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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