73 Year Old Nigerian Nanny, Oluremi Adeleye, Found Guilty Baby Enita’s Murder For Doing What Is Considered A Common Practise In Nigeria

Nigerian mum and granny, Oluremi Adeleye, has been found guilty of all charges of second-degree murder, second-degree child abuse and child abuse resulting in death of 8-month-old Baby Enita Salubi.

This is coming after footage on a nanny cam captured the 73-year-old taking the teat off a feeding bottle and pouring milk from a nearly full 8-ounce bottle directly into baby Enita’s mouth without restraint even while the baby squirmed.

When the father of the child, Influence Salubi, left the house hours before the tragedy, his 8-month-old daughter had been happy and healthy. He was at work when he got the call from the nanny telling him that something was wrong. Salubi rushed home, but met his child lifeless. Her feet was cold. Her limbs were limp and milk poured out of her nose and mouth.

“What did you do?! What happened?!”

Salubi recalled screaming to the nanny before trying to suck out the liquid streaming from his child’s face.

The mother of 5 and grandmother of 10 said through a Yoruba interpreter that the incident was a tragic accident, and that she meant no harm. She said;

“I did what I needed to do to make sure the baby had food in the stomach,”

Adeleye and her lawyers called her method of feeding the baby on that day “cup feeding”, a common practice in her Native country, Nigeria. Her defense described cup feeding as placing one’s hand to a child’s mouth and pouring liquid into the hand to give the child food when they don’t want to eat but need feeding.

The defense called relatives of Adeleye as witnesses, who testified she had cared for their children with no problems and that “cup feeding” — pouring liquid in the hand bit by bit — was common in Nigeria.

Prosecuting attorney Artemis Moutsatsos told Prince George’s County Circuit Court:

“She was getting her to shut up by pouring down the milk.”

According to Washington Post, prosecutors said the carer performed the sickening punishment after the baby’s crying woke her from a nap.

In the harrowing footage, played in court, baby Enita could be seen going limp as Adeleye tried to rouse her. Adeleye then called the toddler’s dad who called 911 as he raced home.

Paramedics said that milk was pouring out of the baby’s mouth and nose as they performed CPR. When detectives arrived, the nanny lied to them about removing the teat from the bottle, but changed her story when police told her there was a video of the incident.

Adeleye, was convicted on Monday and faces up to 70 years in prison when she is finally sentenced in May.