Mother arrested for attempting to kill child with poisonous insecticide
A mother has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for attempting to kill her sick child, using a poisonous insecticide, “Sniper’’, claiming that she took the decision because of the excessive convulsions of the child
Penpushing reports that Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known on Saturday, explaining that the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, reported the attempt to the police on Friday.
The police spokesperson stated that the chief security officer at the hospital reported to the police that the mother brought her one-year-and-seven-month-old daughter to the hospital for treatment, adding that the mother confessed to a Doctor at the hospital that she gave the child “Sniper’’ to drink on Sunday when her convulsion was not abating.
“The mother said she gave the liquid to her child so she could rest from her excessive convulsions. Detectives were immediately dispatched to the hospital where they met the baby receiving treatment. The mother has been taken in for investigation after the child had received treatment’,Hundeyin said.
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