A 35-year-old Nigerian woman has been charged with killing
her husband, who she claimed abused and cheated on her with several women
including her sister and their nanny’s daughter.
Temitope Adebamiro’s husband, 37-year-old Adeyinka
Adebamiro, was found stabbed in a first-floor spare bedroom of the couple’s
home in the 1300 block of Healy Court early Thursday, according to court
documents obtained by The News Journal.
Police were called to the home at about 12:40 a.m. for an
unknown problem only for arriving officers to find Adeyinka Adebamiro
unconscious with a stab wound to the upper body. Paramedics
pronounced him dead at 1:37 a.m.
The victim, his wife, Temitope Adebamiro and their two
children and nanny had been living at the home for the past two years.
Officers took 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 police and documents, the two had been married
for more than 10 years, during which time she told investigators that he’d
physically abused her, even while pregnant with their two children.
She also told investigators her husband had been cheating on
her with various women, including her own sister and the nanny’s daughter,
papers said. The papers, however, did not say how old the nanny’s daughter was.
Temitope also 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. About this time, 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.
At one point, 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. The documents
do not detail the images beyond that.
As the investigation drew to the night before the killing,
police learned the couple had been talking and watching television on the couch
about 9 p.m. Wednesday. Temitope and her husband began arguing after he discovered
the photos she’d taken on her cellphone and he began erasing them.
As he yelled at her, Temitope told police there was a power
outage at which time she went to the kitchen until power returned.
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 that he was stabbed, the papers said.
While not admitting to the killing, the court papers claim
Temitope changed her story several times about what happened in the bedroom,
including to say that she entered first and her husband followed her in with
the knife but that he later dropped it.
Temitope suggested that her husband stabbed himself,
according to the papers. The autopsy, according to the papers, said the
homicide was a single stab wound just below the victim’s neck, about 2 inches
off the center line. The stab was 4 inches deep and severed the victim’s
carotid artery and jugular vein.
When police told Temitope that this was not a suicide, the
woman “began nodding her head in agreement,” according to court documents.
Investigators also checked with Delmarva Power, which indicated no such power
outage occurred at that time, police said.
Temitope was charged with first-degree murder and other
charges. She was arraigned and committed to the Baylor Women’s Correctional
Institution where she is being held without bail.
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