OPERATIVES of Delta State Police Command have arrested a nursing mother for allegedly throwing her 10-month-old baby in a river because her friends were mocking her.
Blessing Ibuku is accused of murdering 10-month-old Prevail Jonathan.
The suspect confessed to the police that she threw her baby into the river on 31 November 2024.
Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi, disclosed this while parading the suspect during a press briefing in Asaba on Tuesday, 17 December. , He said that a case of a missing 10-month-old child named Prevail was reported to the police on 4 December 2024. While at the station, alongside Blessing, the CP said Police received a call that a child was found floating at the Aviara community river.
He said that when the dead child was brought to the station, it was discovered that it was the body of the same missing child.
According to the CP, the suspect confessed during investigation that she threw the baby away because her friends and other girls were making jest of her that the child did not have a father.
The police boss then mentioned that the suspect would be arraigned in court as soon as possible.
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