Temitope Adebamiro, 35,a
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, according to court records.
The 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.
New Castle County police
were called to the home at about 12:40 a.m. for an unknown problem. Arriving
officers found Adeyinka Adebamiro unconscious with a stab wound to the upper
body. New Castle County paramedics pronounced him dead at 1:37 a.m., said Officer
Tracey Duffy, a county police spokeswoman.
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. She added that her
husband had sent her to Nigeria for several months, papers said. 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.
Fastforward, 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, according to court papers.
As he yelled at her,
Temitope told police there was a power outage at which time she went to the
kitchen until power returned, according to documents.
Investigators checked
with Delmarva Power, which indicated no such power outage occurred at that
time, police said.
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.
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.
