{"id":3900,"date":"2013-01-15T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/cleric-wife-assault-child-with-hot-charcoal\/"},"modified":"2013-01-15T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:13:00","slug":"cleric-wife-assault-child-with-hot-charcoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/15\/cleric-wife-assault-child-with-hot-charcoal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleric, wife  assault child with hot charcoal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68\">\n<p>Osogbo \u2013 An Osogbo Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court on Tuesday remanded\u00a0 a cleric, \u00a0Ajibaye Elikana, 49, and his wife, Elizabeth, in prison custody for\u00a0allegedly pouring hot charcoal on their child.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Elisha Olusegun, told the court that the couple conspired and caused bodily harm to their 12-year old son on Jan. 2\u00a0 at Okinni area of\u00a0 Osogbo.<\/p>\n<p>Olusegun said the cleric and his wife tied\u00a0 the hands and legs of their son with a \u00a0rope and bathed him with hot charcoal.<\/p>\n<p>According to Olusegun, the victim was abandoned on the street where he was picked up\u00a0 by a good Samaritan for treatment and taken to the Central Juvenile Welfare Centre.<\/p>\n<p>He said the offence committed contravened Sections 516, 335 and 351 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol. 11 Laws of Osun, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The accused persons, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and their counsel, Mr O.O. Alabi, applied for their bail.<\/p>\n<p>But \u00a0Chief Magistrate\u00a0 Adebayo Lasisi\u00a0 ordered \u00a0the remand of the couple in prison custody and adjourned the case to Jan. 21 \u00a0for bail consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Lasisi also ordered that the victim be brought to court on the next adjourned date to ascertain his condition. (NAN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Osogbo \u2013 An Osogbo Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court on Tuesday remanded\u00a0 a cleric, \u00a0Ajibaye Elikana, 49, and his wife, Elizabeth, in prison custody for\u00a0allegedly pouring hot charcoal on their child. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}