Rosemary, the mother of Sylvester Oromoni, has died.
Naijaonpoint reports that young Oromoni was a pre-teen secondary school student who was the subject of a high-profile bullying case involving Dowen College in Lagos.
A family source who spoke to The Cable disclosed that Sylvester’s mother passed away in late November after intermittent blood pressure-related illness.
The death of Rosemary comes a little over seven months after a special court in Lagos ruled against the family back in April.
Sylvester controversially died on November 30, 2021, while still a student at Dowen College in Lekki Lagos.
His parents alleged that the boy, who was aged 12, was bullied, beaten up, and fed a chemical substance by five of his male colleagues.
However, Dowen College dismissed the claim, insisting that the boy only sustained injuries while playing football with his friends.
The Oromoni family had countered Dowen’s claim, arguing that their son had no pre-existing health challenges before the incident.
In January 2022, an initial autopsy declared that Oromoni Junior died of “acute lung injury due to chemical intoxication”.
This post-mortem was discredited due to its methods and some dissatisfactions surrounding the parties who witnessed the procedure.
The Lagos department of public prosecution (DPP) conducted a second autopsy which ruled that Oromoni died “naturally”.
Among the defendants of the case are the five accused teenage schoolboys of Dowen College.
They include Favour Benjamin, Micheal Kashamu, Edward Begue, Ansel Temile, and Kenneth Inyang.
All five boys were cleared and released from the juvenile home in 2022.
Oromoni was buried on January 27, 2024, after the bereaved family opted to keep his corpse in the morgue as a protest gesture.
Mikhail Kadiri, the judge who presided over the coroner’s court, ruled that Oromoni died of sepsis emanating from an infection of the lungs and kidney caused by an ankle injury.