Oluwakemi Badare allegedly killed her four-year-old son after drowning him before calling the emergency services and admitting to kill her son.
Oluwakemi Badare is a woman from south-east London, Plumstead. She killed her four-year-old son at her flat on December 27, 2020. She is mentally unwell according to My London.
Badare drowned her son in the bath and called the emergency services. She was arrested at the scene and charged with the murder of her son, she was held in custody and presented before the Bromley Magistrates’ Court the next day and was remanded for further investigation.
Let us learn more about Oluwakemi Badare and take a closer look at her murder charges and mental illness.
Update 2022: Who Is Oluwakemi Badare?
Oluwakemi Badare is a woman from Plumstead, south-east London.
She is currently facing trial for the murder of her four-year-old son, she admitted to leaving her son in the bath and fell asleep but the postmortem report said another story.
Badare moved to the United Kingdom from Nigeria back in 2009 but other than that her personal information has not come to the surface yet. She has not made any public appearance, apart from court visits, after she was arrested in 2020.
The authorities have also not revealed anything about her personal life and her husband, her son’s father, is also out of the picture as of now.
The trial is still underway and she denies the murder charges according to My London, she has also denied the alternative charge of manslaughter by gross negligence. The final verdict of the case is yet to be made.
Mother Oluwakemi Badare Charges Of Murder
Mother Oluwakemi Badare is facing charges of murder of her son Kingswealth Bayode.
She has denied the charges in the court but had admitted the murdering her son to the emergency team responding to her call back in 2020.
According to Evening Standards, she was charged with the murder of her son after the emergency respondents found her son naked and dead in her flat on December 27, 2020.
Oluwakemi Badare Mental Illness Condition Explained
Oluwakemi Badare’s mental illness is paranoid schizophrenia according to Mirror.
Her mental illness condition deems her unfit to plead or participate in the trial but the jury will decide if she killed her son of not.
According to PSYCOM, positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions and hallucinations, predominate in paranoid schizophrenia. These incapacitating symptoms blur the boundary between what is and isn’t real, making it impossible for the individual to live a normal life.