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Why I killed my one month old baby, threw corpse in Ogun River –Woman

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
Why I killed my one month old baby, threw corpse in Ogun River –Woman
The suspect

A 35 years old woman, Sukurat Olajoke, has confessed that she killed her one month old baby and threw the corpse into Ogun River in Abeokuta, Ogun State, out of frustration.

The woman made the confession when she was apprehended by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command, when she was caught in action.

According to the spokesman of the police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested when policemen attached to Enugada divisional headquarters, Abeokuta, who are on routine patrol with the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, SP, Baba Hamzat, saw the woman throwing something suspicious into the river.

The suspicious behaviour of the woman, after throwing the object into the river attracted the policemen who quickly apprehended her for questioning.

It was on interrogation that the suspect, who lives at Agbole Alakoye area of Igbo Ora in Oyo State, confessed that what she threw into the river was the corpse of her one month old baby, who she killed out of frustration.

She confessed further that the person who is responsible for the pregnancy of the baby, rejected her and the baby, and since she had no means of taking care of the child, she decided to kill and throw her into the river.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect had given birth to six other children for three different men, before she got pregnant for one man simply identified as Hakeem who refused to accept the paternity of the child.

The DPO later engaged the service of local divers, who helped in recovering the corpse of the child, and it has been deposited at the General Hospital mortuary.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and prosecution.

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