Nigerian teenager buries her newborn baby alive

A  Nigerian teenager, identified as Bright on Wednesday gave birth to a new born baby in  Uyo town of , Akwa Ibom State, and quickly buried her alive in a shallow grave she dug in a garden inside a sprawling compound in Ifa Ikot Okpon community, Uyo Local Government Area of the state.

Penpushing reports that the 18-year old mother lives with her parents in a rented house inside the compound, and was said not to know that she was pregnant until the moment she gave birth, but family source said she lied.

The teenage girl said she only saw a baby coming out of her body, adding that all of a sudden she fell down, and thereafter the baby was coming out of her body, adding that she started crying, and that the baby was a stillbirth, explaining that thereafter she dug a small place to keep the baby until her own mother comes back, so she can show her.

‘I saw a baby coming out of my body. My body was paining me. All of a sudden, I now fell down here (pointing at the garden where she buried the baby), I saw a baby coming out of my body. I started crying”, she said.

“The baby was dead. I was unconscious. I dug a small place to keep the baby until my mother comes back, so I can show her. ‘I was in shock when I gave birth. There was no one to tell me what to do. I didn’t know what to do”, she added.

Penpushing further reports that a co-tenant in the compound, identified as Matthew, dismissed Bright’s claim stressing that the baby was still alive before the mother buried it, adding that the baby was crying after delivery.

The co-tenant added that Bright had earlier dug the grave a previous day, before the birth, and this was corroborated by a midwife, who lives in the community, emphasizing that the baby was still alive before it was buried.

Penpushing also reports that the midwife identified as Elizabeth Okon explained that, because she was among the first responders, she took the baby out of the grave, cleaned her up a bit, and hurried to the roadside to take her to the hospital.

The midwife added that  a man who is the caretaker of the compound got attracted by the baby’s cry and called to inform her about the incident, stressing that commercial tricycle riders refused to collect the old naira notes, and that kept her and the baby  for several hours on the road until the baby eventually died

‘Keke (commercial tricycle riders) refused to collect the old naira notes, and that kept us for several hours on the road until the baby eventually died. I had examined the baby before then, it was still breathing,” she added.

Penpushing further reports that father of the teenager mother disclosed that his daughter ran away from home a few days ago when he and his wife suspected she was pregnant when they wanted to take her out for a checkup.

The teenage girl, however, in respond to her father’s claim, said she went to a church to look for a midwife who could help her with the pregnancy, clearly contradicting her other claim that she was unaware she was pregnant until the very moment she gave birth.

Penpushing also reports that Bright confessed that a man named Ezekiel, who lives in the community, was responsible for the pregnancy, adding that her parents had been seeing the boy whenever he visited her.

Meanwhile, in the garden where the baby was buried, there was a white piece of cloth stained with blood discarded at the edge of the tiny grave, and near it, there was a leaf from a plantain tree, which Bright had used to cover the baby while inside the grave.

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