Sanjo, a Nigerian father, has been arrested by police in Osun for allegedly beating his daughter to death because she refused to stop crying.
The resident of Alekuwodo community in Osogbo, Osun state capital was handed over to the police after the incident was reported to the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Affairs.
Sanjo, who insisted it was not a deliberate act, said he married his wife in 2008 and they have five children.
“It was the third child that I beat unintentionally to death.
“My wife left the child with me and she started crying. I did all I could to placate her, but she kept crying. Something just came upon me and I beat the two months old baby to death. My wife and I buried the child on our farmland.”
When questioned, his wife claimed that four of their five children had died, leaving them with only the youngest.
She revealed that she and her husband plotted to kill two of the children owing to poverty, and they dumped one child around Osogbo Technical School area.
Olubukola Olaboopo, the state commissioner for Women, Children and Social Affairs, said the state would not tolerate acts of violence or child abuse, adding that anyone caught would face the wrath of the law.