Mail Online reports that Olabisi, who is charged of killing her three-year-old kid through religious fasting, admitted to investigators that she had "shut herself up" during the COVID-19 outbreak.
At her trial at Cardiff Crown Court, it was revealed that on June 29, 2020, Police broke into her apartment in the Cathays neighborhood after a friend expressed worries for her welfare.
Next to her son Taiwo's body on a sofa bed sat Olabisi, who was weak, underweight, and dehydrated.
Taiwo, who was 22 pounds (9.8 kilos) in weight, died from hunger and dehydration, according to pathologist Dr. Stephen Leadbetter, who testified before Cardiff Crown Court.
According to Mail Online, Olabisi was sectioned on June 30, 2020, and has since been kept in a facility where she is receiving treatment for paranoid schizophrenia.
Olabisi was pronounced suitable for a police interrogation in October 2020, and he was questioned by officers eight times, according to the prosecutor, Peter Donnison, who testified in court.
Donnison claims that Olabisi discussed "the effect on her of the pressures of not having aid, dread of Coronavirus for herself and her child, and her immigration status" during one interview.
She described them as dismal, according to Mr. Donnison. She claimed to be a devout woman who prayed to God and thought that he had heard her and answered her prayers as well as kept them safe.
She used to take her toddler on daily outings, but the coronavirus forced her to stop. She claimed that because of the coronavirus and her neighbor, she isolates herself.
At the residence she was residing in on Cwmdare Street in Cardiff, Olabisi—an asylum seeker—had been having problems with a neighbor.
She informed the court that
She is a devoted Pentecostal Christian who fasts as a part of her beliefs, the court was informed.
According to Mail Online, the prosecution claims that Olabisi forced her young son to fast with her out of concern for the coronavirus pandemic and other circumstances.
Olabisi, however, vehemently refuted this during police interviews and asserted that youngsters shouldn't fast until they are 12 years old.
She claimed to dry quickly when she wished to communicate with God or get guidance from him, according to Mr. Donnison.
She claimed that although her child did eat, he did not fast.
She told authorities that she had passed out on June 26 and had thought she had gone to heaven before being resurrected by her neighbor and policemen.
Olabisi Abubakar claimed she was unable to clarify what had transpired, according to Donnison. The last thing she recalled was falling asleep on the bed. She stated that she thought God was punishing her.
Olabisi admitted to seeing himself among the dead in heaven in a police interrogation. I was expressing my desire not to pass away. Then I encountered God's angels, who revived me.
The court heard Mr. Donnison read a list of facts that were agreed upon by the prosecution and defense during the trial.
This included proof that prior to the pandemic, health care providers saw Olabisi and Taiwo and had no issues regarding her religion or religious practices.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, medical professionals did not see them.
A police officer visited Olabisi's room in February 2020 after being called to a noise complaint by her neighbor. He noted that it was "clean and warm."
According to Mr. Donnison, Taiwo was spotted playing loudly and was "extremely lively" and in good condition.
When Taiwo's death was recovered on June 29, police examined the home and discovered a note on food in a refrigerator that said, "Do not touch anything, whooping cough, virus, save yourself."
According to Mail Online, Olabisi left a number of notes while riding in an ambulance and being treated at a hospital, stating that she was "extremely hungry" and "can't stand up," as well as that Taiwo was dead.
In the hospital, Olabisi said to a policeman, "I don't eat, I can't cook, and because of the coronavirus, I can't go buy food."
Doctors determined Olabisi had delusions, and on June 30, 2020, she was sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 while continuing to be held in a hospital for treatment.
Olabisi, who was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and relocated to London in 2011, neglected her son without question, but the jury has been informed that it is her mental state at the time that is at issue, according to Mail Online.
The judge will have to determine whether Olabisi was perhaps insane in order to dismiss the accusations against her for insanity as the trial progresses.
On Thursday afternoon, Caroline Rees KC is anticipated to begin Olabisi's defense, who is denying two counts of child maltreatment and manslaughter.
