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Adelani caused the unlawful termination of the woman’s pregnancy after forcing her to take five “abortion” pills and then locking her in a room at a house in Co Donegal.
Adeleke Adelani, a 28-year-old Nigerian man, has been sentenced to nine years in prison in Ireland for coercing his former girlfriend into terminating her pregnancy.
Adelani caused the unlawful termination of the woman’s pregnancy after forcing her to take five “abortion” pills and then locking her in a room at a house in Co Donegal.
Adelani old his former girlfriend that he would beat her nine-week-old foetus out of her if she did not take the tablets on St Valentine’s Day in 2020.
The victim, who asked for Adelani to be named publicly, had told the court that she will always grieve her child, saying: “Healing does not erase the loss it only means I learned how to live with it.”
Sentencing the accused to 11 years with the final two years suspended, on Thursday, February 19, 2026, Judge John Aylmer said the accused man’s actions were “extremely premeditated
He referred back to the evidence given at a sentencing hearing last week saying how Adelani had “lured” the woman to Letterkenny on the pretence that they were to have the baby together.
He said the accused had done a great deal of research on the internet as to how to carry out the termination while all the time knowing of the woman’s express desire to keep her baby.
He referred to the woman’s victim impact statement saying that while she was forgiving of Adelani in a very Christian way, it was clear from it nevertheless of the “appalling emotional trauma” that the woman suffered by his actions.
He told the accused: “You ignored her obvious distress. Her tears were audible in the recording you made.”
Aylmer added: “It’s quite difficult to contemplate a more serious offence contrary to this statutory provision.”
Aylmer said the most serious charge was the unlawful ending of the life of a foetus as well as assault causing harm to the woman.
He said he was also taking into consideration the threats made to the woman and the false imprisonment of the woman.
He placed the offence very much on the upper end of the scale and before mitigation merited a sentence of 11 years for the unlawful ending of the life of a foetus and five years for the assault of the woman.
In mitigation, the judge said he had to consider the accused man’s plea of guilty and the fact that he was using his time well in prison as well as expressions of remorse and empathy to the victim.
Because of the mitigation, Aylmer said he was reducing the headline sentence of 11 years for the unlawful ending of the life of a foetus to one of nine years and also reduced the sentence of five years to one of 4½ years for the assault of the woman.
Both of these sentences are to run concurrently.
He is currently serving 5½ years in prison having been sentenced for another crime in November 2025 with the current sentences to run consecutive to this sentence.
The accused had previously pleaded guilty to the charge that he unlawfully ended the life of a foetus, contrary to section 23.2 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018.
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