Woman arrested during naming ceremony of stolen Baby
By Dayo Badmus,
A woman has been arrested during the christening of a baby she stole from the mother.
According to the woman simply identified as Mogbojuri, she stole the baby because she had no child for her new husband.
She said, “It was not intentional, I will just beg Nigerians to forgive me. Truly, I stole the child and I did that in order to be taking good care of the child. I have given birth before, but I never had child for the husband I’m presently with. I just like the child, that’s why I abducted the child because I have not conceived for my present husband.
“The husband I married now did not know anything about the situation, I lied to him that I was pregnant. This would be the second time I will abduct a child so I’m just pleading for forgiveness.”
The mother of the baby, Binta Alhassan, who also spoke on the incident, stated that Mogbojuri came to their house because she was very familiar with their house and requested to pass the night in her house on the day she put to bed, which she obliged.
She said, “She had a friend in our house before who she always visited but the man is no more living in our house. That is how we knew her. She came in the evening of the day I put to bed that she was stranded in Okitipupa and had no place to sleep.
“We allowed her to spend the night in one of the vacant rooms, we even gave her food to eat that night, not knowing that she had a mission.
To my surprise, the following morning, while on my way from the bathroom, the woman had disappeared with the baby which I had not even been breastfed by then, it was after five days that the police found and arrested her.”
The Police Public Relations Officer said the suspect would be charged to court as soon as investigation was concluded on the matter.
