{"id":11399,"date":"2019-09-22T00:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T00:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2019-09-22T00:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T00:23:59","slug":"child-abuse-nigerian-woman-rebecca-ojo-odonsi-sentenced-to-6-years-in-jail-for-body-injury-to-daughter-in-ghana-accused-15-year-old-daughter-of-stealing-3000cedis-handing-over-proceed-of-crime-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/child-abuse-nigerian-woman-rebecca-ojo-odonsi-sentenced-to-6-years-in-jail-for-body-injury-to-daughter-in-ghana-accused-15-year-old-daughter-of-stealing-3000cedis-handing-over-proceed-of-crime-t\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILD ABUSE! Nigerian Woman, REBECCA OJO ODONSI Sentenced To 6 Years in Jail for Body Injury to Daughter in Ghana&#8230;Accused 15-year old daughter of Stealing 3,000Cedis, handing over proceed of crime to Boyfriend *Angrily used a kitchen knife, a pair of scissors to cause her harm, leaving her with bleeding wound * Ghana government returns daughter back to Nigeria woman relative * &#8216;My daughter is a thief. She had been stealing everything in the house and giving same to her Ghana boyfriend. She stole my two cellphones in the house, 3,000Cedis I collected from the bank and handed everything to her Ghana boyfriend. We have no money to feed. I have no one to run for help. Her father promised to send us money, but nothing has happened since January this year. Ghana government should spare me jail time. They should deport me back to Nigeria&#8217;-Cried embattled suspect  BY KOJO AKUA\/CRIME REPORTER, ACCRA, GHANA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Nigerian-woman-Ghana-2-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5794\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Nigerian-woman-ghana-real-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5795\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Nigerian-woman-Ghana-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5796\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHILD\nABUSE!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>N<\/strong><strong>igerian\nWoman, REBECCA OJO ODONSI Sentenced To 6 Years in Jail for Body\nInjury to Daughter in Ghana<\/strong><strong>&#8230;Accused\n15-year old daughter of Stealing 3,000Cedis, handing over proceed of\ncrime to Boyfriend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*Angrily\nused a kitchen knife, a pair of scissors to cause her harm, leaving\nher with bleeding wound<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>* Ghana\ngovernment returns daughter back to Nigeria woman relative<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>* &#8216;My daughter\nis a thief. She had been stealing everything in the house and giving\nsame to her Ghana boyfriend. She stole my two cellphones in the\nhouse, 3,000Cedis I collected from the bank and handed everything to\nher Ghana boyfriend. We have no money to feed. I have no one to run\nfor help. Her father promised to send us money, but nothing has\nhappened since January this year. Ghana government should spare me\njail time. They should deport me back to Nigeria&#8217;-Cried embattled\nsuspect<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>BY KOJO\nAKUA\/CRIME REPORTER, ACCRA, GHANA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>REBECCA OJO\nODONSI, A-35 YEAR OLD NIGERIAN WOMAN who relocated here to Accra,\nGhana in search of a better life from Nigeria has been sentenced to 6\nyears in jail for causing body injury to her 15-year old daughter\nwhom she accused of stealing daily from her. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Odonsi in\ntears after been sentenced to jail stated that her daughter pushed\nher into taking the drastic action when she stole her two mobile\ncellphones and the sum of 3,000 Cedis she collected from her bank\naccount in Ghana. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Her words: <\/strong>\u201c<strong>My\ndaughter is a thief. She had been stealing everything in the house\nand giving same to her Ghana boyfriend. She stole my two cellphones\nin the house, 3,000Cedis I collected from the bank and handed\neverything to her Ghana boyfriend. We have no money to feed. I have\nno one to run for help. Her father promised to send us money, but\nnothing has happened since January this year. Ghana government should\nspare me jail time. They should deport me back to Nigeria.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Odonsi\nsentenced to six years in prison in Ghana for lashing her daughter\nwith a kitchen knife and a pair of scissors leaving her with bleeding\nwounds. Meanwhile, her daughter has been reunited back to her\nmother&#8217;s family in Nigeria. This suspect would be deported from Ghana\nback to Nigerian after her 6 Years sentence<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHILD ABUSE! Nigerian Woman, REBECCA OJO ODONSI Sentenced To 6 Years in Jail for Body Injury to Daughter in Ghana&#8230;Accused 15-year old daughter of Stealing 3,000Cedis, handing over proceed of crime to Boyfriend *Angrily used a kitchen knife, a pair of scissors to cause her harm, leaving her with bleeding wound * Ghana government returns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[129,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-11399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-nigeria-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}