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How Missing Boy’s Body Was Found Inside Woman’s Deep Freezer

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The Lagos State Police Command on Friday apprehended a woman identified as Pateince Odowo, in whose deep freezer, the dead body of a six-year-old boy was allegedly seen at Alapere in Ketu.

While speaking on the arrested that spokesperson of the state police command, Bala Elkana, stated that the dead body has been deposited at the mortuary, while investigation has started.

The spokesperson stated that one woman identified as Eunice Akinsohun, a residence of No. 9, Oyedele Str. Alapere Ketu, reported that her son, Treasure Akinsohun went missing at 9 a.m.

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Elkana stated that the dead body of the boy was discovered inside the freezer in her neighbour’s shop, one Patience Odowo at
No. 12, Orisigun Str. Alapere, leading to Odowo’s arrest.

Report has it that the dead boy and her mother had gone to Ketu to celebrate the Easter holidays with his mother’s younger sister.

It was also learnt that Treasure and other kids in his aunt’s compound were playing when he suddenly disappeared.

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His body was later found inside a freezer at Orisigun Street, five streets from his mother’s younger sister’s house.

The mother while speaking with newsmen stated that she noticed that her son was not among the kids playing in the compound.

She said that when she asked for his whereabouts, the other children could not give an answer, prompting her to raise alarm.

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She said she immediately went to the Alapare Police Station to report her missing son.

“I also called my husband on the phone to inform him of the development. Before I got back home, a crowd had gathered at my sister’s house at Alapere to help in the search for my son.”

“Throughout that day, we couldn’t locate the exact place where he was. When my husband eventually arrived, he also tried his best with my sister’s husband and some elders in the community.”

“My son was still not found. That was how we went back to Ikorodu that night with tears and anguish,” she said crying.

She stated that it was when they were on their way back to Alapere from Ikorodu that they received a phone call that her son had been found in a woman’s freezer at Orisigun Street.

“Immediately I saw the corpse of my son, I fainted. I was later revived at the hospital. What surprised me was how my son got into a freezer at another street.”

“I still don’t understand how he got into the freezer as I speak with you. But it is left for the police to investigate,” she said.

The father of the boy, Mr Ojo Akinsohun, said he was preparing to go out when he received a phone call from his wife that their son was missing.

“I heard that the night my son was missing, the daughter of the freezer’s owner was sent to bring sachet water from the freezer, but she didn’t find the boy inside. I am surprised how the boy got into the freezer.”

“I want police to investigate it and get to the root of the matter. I can’t sit down and allow my son to die in vain,” he said.