Woman looses pregnancy afta 10years of no issue to police brutality

THE joy of every married woman is to get pregnant and bear children without delay. But the case of Mrs. Damilola Adegbite, an Ibadan-based petty trader, was different. She waited for 10 years before she could conceive and just before she was delivered of the baby, the worst happened. She allegedly lost the baby to police brutality.
Trouble for her started when she had a confrontation with a police woman who allegedly slapped her. She was also said to have been slapped several times before another cop kicked her and she landed on concrete floor with a heavy fall. One of the policemen allegedly marched on her stomach with his boot several times and she became a vegetable instantly.
At the time she was beaten black and blue, she was carrying a four-month pregnancy and she was 29 years old. The alleged brutalisation led to the termination of the preg­nancy, which was the first she would have after 10 years of marriage.
This was the allegation levelled by Damilola against some police­men at the Akobo Divisional Police Headquarters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The incident report­edly occurred on Tuesday August 11, 2015 at the police station. The woman was said to have been beat­en to stupor on the allegation that she slapped a policewoman. But Damilola insisted that the allegation was untrue.
she was later taken to a private hospital, Abijol Maternity Home and Welfare Clinic, near the po­lice station and a few days later transferred to Oyo State Hospital, Adeoyo, Ibadan. The two hospitals confirmed that she had a miscar­riage.
The medical report by the Abijol Maternity Home and Welfare Clinic stated that Damilola was brought to the clinic at 7:20p.m on August 11, 2015 unconscious “with the history of being arrested by the police since morning. No food given.”
According to the clinic, Damilo­la’s husband said she lost her preg­nancy earlier on the same day and she was still bleeding when she was rushed to the clinic. She was placed on admission and was said to be coughing and tried to convulse.
“She was given IV fluids, pain reliever, injection to stop the bleed­ing and antibiotic. Other treatments were given to make her comfort­able. She was discharged in the eve­ning to the police station.”
Two days later, Damilola was taken to the Oyo State Hospital by the police. She was admitted with number 1117/8/15 and spent eight days at the hospital. The hospital confirmed that the police brought her for confirmation if she had a miscarriage on August 13, 2015. The state hospital stated that she was managed as a case of post-abortal despair, following accidental termi­nation of pregnancy.
Damilola had been taken to the police station in connection with alleged destruction of property in a tailoring shop beside the house she resides with her husband, Musbau, and other tenants. Three among the occupants of the house were ar­rested by the police on the case. But Damiliola said that she did not have hands in the alleged destruction.
According to her, two of her neighbours were later identified by the complainant as those who removed the signpost in front of a tailoring shop.
During an encounter with Sat­urday Sun, Damilola, now 30, recounted: “On that day, a police­woman came to our house in Akobo in the morning. She wore uniform and she met me where I was cook­ing food. She walked up to me and said I was under arrest. I asked why and she said I would get the details when I get to the station.
“So, I quickly called my husband on phone to inform him about the development. He asked me to give the policewoman my phone so that he could talk to her. But she refused to collect it and left.
“Then, I told my husband what she did and he said I should round off whatever I was doing and report to Akobo divisional police head­quarters. So, I quickly finished the cooking and took my bath. I did not eat. When I wanted to set out for the station, the policewoman came with another policeman and they took me to their station.
“At the station, I sought to k