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. Paramedicspronounced 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 Temitope told investigators that her husband 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. 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. But 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.
As she put it away, she noticed blood on the tip and that’s when she realized that he was stabbed.
While not admitting
to the killing, court papers claim Temitope suggested that her husband
stabbed himself. And that she 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.
The autopsy 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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