{"id":22160,"date":"2019-05-09T19:59:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22160"},"modified":"2019-05-09T19:59:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:59:54","slug":"us-court-sentences-nigerian-to-15-year-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=22160","title":{"rendered":"US Court Sentences Nigerian to 15-Year Jail Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=18686&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A Nigerian mother, Mrs. Oluremi Adeleye, whose actions led to the death of an 8-month-old baby in Maryland, United States, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Adeleye, 73, broke down crying in court as she spoke through an interpreter, saying, \u201cIt was a mistake. I did not want to kill that child.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Adeleye was found guilty in a bench trial in February of child abuse and second-degree murder.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The US Prosecutors said Adeleye forced milk down the throat of 8-month-old Enita Salubi in Glenarden in October 2016, suffocating the child.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The incident was captured on a nanny camera. The defense had argued that force-feeding was a common practice in Nigeria from where Adeleke came from.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The presiding judge Karen Mason said while she did not believe Adeleye was an \u201cevil-intentioned baby slayer,\u201d Adeleye knew or should have known her actions could result in the death of the child.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Prosecutors said Adeleye was a live-in nanny at a couple\u2019s home in Prince George\u2019s County when one 8-month-old Enita Salubi died on Oct. 26, 2016.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Adeleye was asleep on a couch inside the house when the baby, who was in a walker, began crying and woke the nanny, police said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Police said a video surveillance camera shows the nanny tried to feed the baby, but without success.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Adeleye then pulled the baby from her walker, removed the nipple from her bottle and forcefully fed her, police said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Adeleye poured \u201ceight ounces of milk down the child\u2019s throat in less than 30 seconds, essentially drowning her,\u201d the Prince George\u2019s County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The baby appeared to squirm and resist while being fed the first bottle, and then Adeleye forced the contents of a second bottle into her mouth, documents said. After the baby became unresponsive, Adeleye called the baby\u2019s father, who dialed 911 as he raced home. Enita Salubi was rushed to a hospital, where she died.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Clifton Wanzer, a neighbor, said he saw the little girl\u2019s father carry her to an ambulance. She was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking on the incident, Susan Jeremy, a child expert based in Washington said Forced feeding is a widespread childcare practice in Yoruba culture.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Adeyeye is a Yoruba woman. The practice is learnt by females through socialization process, and practiced as an expected role of a responsible mother.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The desire to feed children forces women to engage in forced feeding practice. Just like the judge said Adeleye did not intend to kill the baby. She added that it was unfortunate the baby died from the incident.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to her, I did not expect the sentencing. I thought the Embassy of Nigeria should have also added their voice and try to get a light sentencing for her.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Disadvantages of sending modern African grandmothers to Europe and especially America and Canada to do baby sitting business. Very risky.\u00a0 One Madam Esther Ejiofor,\u00a0 a wonderful woman, force fed every child she babysitted. Nobody died. Why? Because she was doing what she learnt that came through generational experience. American based African grandmothers cannot be Madam Esther Ejiofor. Never. Madam Esther was carrying an experience of over 50 yrs in baby sitting.\u00a0 (www.nbcwashington.com)<\/div>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=18686&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian mother, Mrs. Oluremi Adeleye, whose actions led to the death of an 8-month-old baby in Maryland, United States, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Adeleye, 73, broke down crying in court as she spoke through an interpreter, saying, \u201cIt was a mistake. I did not want to kill that child.\u201d Adeleye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[5453],"class_list":["post-22160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-mrs-oluremi-adeleye"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/nigerian-woman.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-5Lq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22163,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160\/revisions\/22163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}