The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended a 37-year-old woman for allegedly dumping her one-day-old baby girl in a bush, causing her death.
According to the police authorities, the woman, Aderoju Ojelabi, placed her baby in a sack along with her placenta and dumped her in a bush not too far from her home on November 25, 2012.
Ojelabi who has been married four times and have five children, said she dumped the baby because of the financial burden of raising her, adding that she was still nursing an 18-month-old baby when she gave birth to the baby.
A policeman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the baby was in a critical condition when she was discovered because of the long hours she had stayed in the sack.
He said; “Expectedly, a new-born baby should have been fed and kept warm immediately after birth but the suspect did not feed the child. Rather, she put her in a sack, making it difficult for the baby to breathe. The baby was also covered in blood which means the suspect did not even deem it fit to clean her up."
The corpse of the baby, it was learnt, had been deposited at the morgue of General Hospital, Isolo. (Credit: Punch)
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