A 25-year-old woman in Ebonyi State, Ugochukwu Otu,
has done the abominable by killing her one-day baby
girl soon after she was discharged from a maternity
home.
Otu did it so that she would be free to live her life as
she pleases and avoid the maternal responsibility of
caring for the baby. The horrific act was committed on
December 22, 2014 in Enohia Nkalu Afikpo North Local
Government Area, Ebonyi State.
Ordinarily, the safe delivery of the innocent baby would
have been considered a welcome Christmas gift from
God in the home of any of the uncountable number of
women, who are eager to experience the joy of
motherhood, but cannot do so either through natural
conception or IVF and are therefore compelled to go to
lengths to adopt babies they lovingly nurture and raise
as their own. But this mother from hell chose the route
of infamy as the devil egged her on and she killed the
baby, put her dead body in a black polyethylene bag
and dumped it in a bush near Ndibe beach road in her
area.
As Sunday Sun learnt from the Ebonyi State Police
Commissioner, Maigari Dikko, nemesis caught up with
her when neighbours began asking her about the baby.
Realising that providence had put the spot light on her
secret, Out confessed her evil deed and took the people
to the where she dumped the baby. Shocked youths in
the community then trooped to a nearby a police station
to report the matter and she was arrested.
At the headquarters of the State Criminal Investigation
Department, Ebonyi State Police Command, where she
is being held, Otu spoke with Sunday Sun.
Showing no remorse, Otu said: “I killed my one-day old
baby girl intentionally because I don’t have N500 for her
medical treatment. I want to be free lady. I didn’t have
any intention to get pregnant. I was impregnated by one
man called Monday, a native of Ozizza Afikpo North
LGA. But later he refused to accept the pregnancy and I
didn’t plan for it. I am not ready to marry; I want to be a
free lady. I had to strangle the baby girl and put the
corpse in a black polythene bag and dumped it along
Ndibe beach road, near the bush. I don’t regret killing
my baby because nobody was responsible for her
upkeep.”
The Assistant Commissioner of Police in-charge of
SCID, Mrs. Augustina Ogbodo informed Sunday Sun the
police recovered the corpse of the baby, and added that
the suspect would be charged to court soon for the
murder of the baby girl.
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