The single mother, who
claimed she dropped her baby because she had no means of feeding her, said
the decision was made easier because the father of the baby abandoned her
and ran away.
THISDAY gathered that it was a passerby that alerted the police about the
baby, who was by then crying profusely from the stinging bite of the cold
weather.
After the police had picked
up the baby, they had first taken her to a nearby hospital for proper
check up, before they initiated an investigation to discover the mother.
Their first clue came when
some neighbours alerted the Divisional Police Officer, Alim Musa, a Chief
Superintendent of Police, about the pool of blood trickling out of a
neighbour’s house.
When the police got to the
residence, the suspect was seen recuperating, while the baby was
nowhere to be seen, as she was said to have delivered the baby herself in
her room.
Upon questioning, the
neighbours had attested to the fact that she was pregnant, which prompted
the police to question her further, upon which she capitulated and
admitted to her offence.
The suspect, who was paraded
at the police command headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos, said the future had
looked bleak for her.
Although she works as a sales
person in a shop that sells tricycles, she claimed she had just gotten the
job and that the pay wasn’t much.
She said, “I gave up my
daughter because I had no help and my mother is dead. I don’t even know
the whereabouts of her father.
“The only thing I know is
that he told me he was traveling. Since that day till now, the
number he gave me can’t be reached.”
Source:
Thisday
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