A 14 years old house maid, Favour Iwuozor, has been arrested by operatives of Ogun State Police command for abducting and running away with her mistress’ two years old son.
The suspect was arrested on Monday following a complaint lodged at Sagamu divisional headquarters by one Victoria Nwafor, who reported that she saw a 14 years old girl on the December 22, 2021, with a very sick two year old boy in Yaba Lagos.
According to the spokesman of the police in Ogun State, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, she stated further that the little girl was begging for alms under the pretence that the small boy is her younger brother and that their parents died in an accident in December 2020.
Out of compassion, the woman took both of them to her house in Sagamu in order to take care of the little boy deteriorating health condition.
But immediately the boy fully recovered, the suspect wanted to single-handedly take the boy to Imo State.
This aroused the woman’s suspicion, hence her report.
Upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Sagamu division, CSP Okiki Agunbiade, detailed his detectives to go and bring the girl and the little boy.
On interrogation, the girl confessed that she was a maid to the mother of the little boy, and that she left with the boy since December 19, 2021, with the intention of taking the boy to Amraku Umorsu in Isiala/Mberna local government area of Imo State.
She stated further that she took the baby from the church during Sunday school period, and since the Sunday school teacher knew her with the baby’s mother, she had no problem releasing the baby to her.
She explained further that she decided to beg for alms in order to raise transport fare to Imo State.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered that the baby’s parents be contacted urgently, while the case should be forwarded to Lagos State command whose jurisdiction the crime was actually committed.
