Shockwaves are reverberating across Yorùbáland and the global Yorùbá diaspora following the sudden death of the Baba Ọba (King’s Father) of the famed Oyotunji African Village in South Carolina, USA. The late Baba Ọba, Lukman Arohunfale, a revered socialite and traditionalist, passed away under circumstances already sparking fierce controversy. His death comes just days after he publicly accused the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty Oba Akeem Adéyẹmọ Owoade, of allegedly ordering his courtiers to beat him mercilessly during a recent courtesy visit to the Oyo palace in Nigeria. In a widely circulated voice recording, the deceased recounted how what was meant to be a simple homage turned violent. Although the Baba Ọba had reportedly battled ill health in the past year, growing insinuations suggest that the alleged physical assault may have aggravated his condition, ultimately leading to his untimely death. The palace in Oyo recently denied that s...
Aloisio Francesco Rosario Giordano, 52, was taken into custody in Italy
over the weekend and being held on kidnapping charges – the second time
he’s been held on such charges.
His first victim also fell pregnant twice, but he aborted the baby himself, first by kicking her in the stomach and the 2nd time using a scalpel and a spoon that police said he also used to sodomise her.
He is said to have put his wife’s carer into the dungeon – a basement under a shed at his home in Gizzeria, southern Italy – soon after his wife died.
She was chained to a metal bar next to her ‘bed’ in the rat-infested room where there was no running water or electricity.
She was beaten and r*ped repeatedly and is now the mother of a nine-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl.
Both children also faced being beaten if they didn’t watch him attacking their mother.
Some of her injuries were so bad that Giordano is said to have tried to patch them up himself, using fishing wire.
They were made to sleep on cardboard for beds and all they had for a toilet was a plastic bucket that was put under a wooden chair.
Police were alerted to the woman’s plight when they saw her son in the back of Giordano’s car when he was pulled over because of the condition of his car.
He was said to be dirty, malnourished; so they asked to see the boy’s home and speak to his mother.
They found the woman clutching her three-year-old daughter and an investigation was launched, uncovering the horrific conditions she was kept in.
She was taken to a secret location after telling police that she had been kept away from the outside world for a decade and hadn’t washed for a year.
Giordano was taken into custody for aggravated s*xual abuse and mistreatment.
He was jailed for five years in 1995 for kidnapping, raping and torturing another woman called Maria Rosa, 23, and was released for good behaviour in 1999.
According to Daily Mail, he went home to his wife, who was terminally ill and being cared for by his 19-year-old victim, a Romanian woman who is not being identified.
It was when his wife died that he offered to help his second victim by giving her a place to stay.
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