Housewife Sentence To Death For Throwing 8 Years Old Child Into Well 

Kano State High Court has been convicted an housewife, Fadila Adamu and sentenced to death by hanging for killing an eight years old girl.

Fadila, a resident of Sabuwar Gandu Quarters was earlier arrested and convicted for culpable homicide for kidnapping the teenage and subsequently threw her into a well, leading to her cruel death.

Justice Yusuf Muhammad-Ubale, ruled that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt, thereby neccesitated the defendant capital punishment.

“I hereby sentence the defendant to death by hanging for kidnapping and throwing the victim into a well which caused her death” he ruled

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Lamido Abba-Sorondinki, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on July 14, 2019, at Tudun Wada Quarters, Kano.

“The defendant told her sister that the deceased was the daughter of her friend, whose mother had travelled to Ghana, and asked her to keep the child until she returned.

“On July 17, 2019, at about 6:30 p.m., the defendant caused the death of the minor when she threw her into a deep well situated in the Tukuntawa Quarters Kano,” he said.

Abba-Sorondinki presented seven witnesses including the defendants’ statements and a medical report confirming the victim’s death. The prosecution said that the offence contravened Sections 274(b) and 221(a) of the Penal Code.

The defendant denied committing the offence.

The defense counsel, Zulaihat Tata, presented four witnesses, including the defendant, to testify in her defense.