By Oluwatoyin Adegoke 

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court has remanded a 37-year-old nurse, Kehinde Adesanya, at a correctional facility over her alleged involvement in the attempted termination of a pregnancy that resulted in the death of a National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member.

Adesanya was facing a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, attempt to procure abortion and murder.

The prosecuting counsel, Mr Solomon Babalola, urged the court to grant an ex parte motion seeking the remand of the defendant for 60 days at the Ibara Correctional Centre pending legal advice from the Ogun State Director of Public Prosecutions.

Babalola told the court that the alleged offences were committed between January and March at the Ikereku area of Laderin in Abeokuta, where the defendant allegedly conspired with others now at large to procure an abortion for a 23-year-old corps member, Victoria Ariyo.

The prosecutor further disclosed that one Olalekan Abass, an official of the National Youth Service Corps, was also arrested in connection with the case, having allegedly impregnated the deceased and provided her with drugs to terminate the pregnancy.

In her ruling, Magistrate O. O. Sam-Obaleye granted the application and ordered that the defendant be remanded at the Ibara Correctional Centre pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions, while the case was adjourned until May 26 for mention.

Edited by Titilayo Kupoliyi

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