The Ajangbadi Police Division of the Lagos State Police Command arrested 31-year-old Ifunanya Eme on Thursday For dumping her day-old baby by the roadside around 3am on Tuesday, just two hours after her birth.
Ifunanya 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. Passerby alerted the police after hearing the cries of the baby.On arrival, the Police took the baby to a nearby hospital for check up, before they initiated an investigation to discover the mother.
Meanwhile, 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. The police questioned her once they confirmed from the neighbours that she was indeed pregnant. Ms Eme, who works as a sales person in a tricycles shop, admitted to the offence.
In her confession, 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.”
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