The Ondo State Police Command, on Tuesday, arraigned four mortuary attendants at the Ondo State Specialists Hospital, Akure, before a magistrates’ court in Oke Eda, Akure.
The suspects, Oluwole Fatoba, 45; Taiwo Ebenezer, 45; Matthew Adeleye, 39; and Olusola Olugbogi, 58, were arraigned in connection with the disappearance of the corpse of a day-old baby from the hospital’s morgue.
The baby and his mother died two weeks ago during labour at the Police Hospital, Akure, and their corpses were deposited in the morgue of the state government-owned hospital, but when members of the deceased’s family went to the hospital to collect the corpses for burial, the baby could not be found.
Consequently, the police arrested the mortuary attendants and arraigned them before the court on four counts.
The magistrate, Mrs Victoria Bob-Manuel, granted the accused persons bail, saying the case was a sensitive one and there was no concrete evidence against them.
She ruled that each of the accused persons must provide a surety, who must be a civil servant on Grade Level 9 and above, and N500,000 or a landed property in like sum.
She adjourned the case till July 2, 2019, for further hearing.
