WOMAN, 28 ARRESTED FOR STEALING 3 YEAR OLD BABY AT REDEMPTION CAMP
The police spokesman said, luck however ran out on the suspect on the December 29 when the child was sighted inside the youth center at redemption camp during the Church organized children’s end of the year party.
“On receiving the information, the DPO redeemed division SP Olaiya Martins led detectives to the center where they waited until the end of the program when the suspect came out to pick the child and was promptly arrested”<he said.
Oyeyemi said, the suspect has since confessed to the crime,admitting that she lured the child out of her parents sight and took her to Ofada area where she has been taken care of the child since then.
“Investigation further revealed that the suspect had earlier got pregnant for somebody in Lagos but travelled to the North where she claimed she has delivered of a baby girl. But when she came back from the North, she didn’t came with the baby which made the man who impregnated her to be putting pressure on her to bring his child for him”.
“She later inform her relatives that she is going to the Nasarawa State to bring the child but went to redeemed camp where she stayed for some days before succeeding in stealing the child which she presented to her Relations as her daughter’.
Meanwhile the commissioner of police, Ahmed Ilyasu has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and prosecution.
