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US-based Nigerian woman Temitope Adebamiro, who allegedly murdered her husband
has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and a weapons offense.
Adebamiro,
36, entered the plea to manslaughter and a weapons offense in Superior Court in
Wilmington on Sept. 16.
Her
attorney said she was able to plead to the lesser murder offense under a
section of the code for extreme emotional distress. Now, instead of proceeding
to trial as planned for mid-October, she faces four to 50 years in prison
at a sentencing in December.
Temitope allegedly
stabbed her pharmacist husband, Adeyinka Adebamiro, 37, in the couple's
home in the 1300 block of Healy Court in April 2015. New Castle County police
were called to the home at about 12:40 am and found Adeyinka unconscious with a
stab wound near his neck.
The officers took the residents of the
home, including Temitope, who was wearing blood-stained clothing, to
the Cpl. Paul J. Sweeney Public Safety Building near New Castle, according
to court documents.
The
couple had been married for more than 10 years and had two children. During
investigation, Temitope claimed her husband was physically abusive to her, even
while she was pregnant, and had been cheating on her with various women,
including her own sister and the nanny's daughter.
In
an interview with Sahara Reporters, Temitope's sister, who claimed
Temitope was the one cheating on the deceased and that she was involved
with black magic.
On
the night of the killing, Temitope told investigators her husband had sent her
to Nigeria for several months. After returning in December, she had to
stay in a hotel near the Philadelphia airport for four days because her husband
refused to let her into their Red Lion home. He then paid for her to fly back
to Nigeria for a few more months. It was then she learned that her husband had
spent Christmas with the nanny's daughter.
The
husband later flew out to Nigeria and flew back with her to Philadelphia. As he
showed her the cameras inside their home over his cellphone, Temitope saw the
nanny's daughter inside the home. Temitope saw several texts and images in her
husband's phone, which she took pictures of using her cellphone. Some of the
pictures included images of her sister and the nanny's daughter.
Around
9 p.m. on the night of the killing, the couple had been talking and
watching television on the couch about 9 p.m when her husband discovered the
photos she'd taken on her cellphone, according to court documents.
As
he yelled at her, Temitope told police there was a power outage, the court
documents said.
Investigators checked with Delmarva Power,
which indicated there was no power outage at the time, police said.
Temitope
then told police that when the power returned, she found her husband in the
first-floor bedroom lying in the bed. As she got closer to him, she saw a knife
on the ground which she picked up and took to the kitchen, according to
documents. As she put it away, she noticed blood on the tip and that's when she
realized he had been stabbed, the court documents said.
Temitope
suggested to police that her husband stabbed himself and changed her story
several times, according to court documents. When police told Temitope that his
death was not a suicide, the woman "began nodding her head in
agreement," according to court documents.
Police
also found during a search of the home a photograph of Temitope's husband on
top of the dresser in the master bedroom. The picture is of the victim holding
a baby with an X across his face and a cut mark across his neck, according to
court documents.
She
was charged with first-degree murder and has been held in the Baylor Women's
Correctional Institution ever since.
Source:
Delawareonline
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