Police have rescued a two week- old baby girl allegedly stolen by a
woman, Mrs Ifeoluwa Yekini, at Abule Ifo in Ifo Local Government Area of
Ogun State. The police also arrested Yekini. The state Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed the incident
yesterday, said the suspect had been monitoring the mother of the baby
right from when she was pregnant.
Adejobi, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police, said the suspect eventually succeeded in
stealing the child using deception. According to him, the baby girl was
stolen on October 31 and rescued on November 14.
The police
spokesman added that the suspect had also deceived her husband into
believing that she was pregnant. Adejobi explained that having succeeded
in stealing the baby, Yekini went into hiding at her parents’ village
from where she called her husband and his relations on the phone,
informing them that she had been delivered of a baby girl.
He
said: “The suspect, who had been monitoring the mother of the baby while
pregnant, went under the pretense of felicitating with the mother in
her house at the same village, requested to back the baby, which the
mother obliged her. “She went further by requesting from the mother to
take the baby out to shop for the little baby girl.
But at the
market, the suspect decided to run away with the baby to an unknown
place. “The mother of the baby, after several efforts to locate her with
the baby, then reported the case to the police at the Police Divisional
Headquarters in Ifo for search and necessary investigation.”
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