A 22 – year – old Badmus has been arrested by the Police for allegedly stealing her master’s five -months -old – a daughter.
Badmus who is being detained at police command Headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos, told the police that her inability to bear a child after three years of marriage forced her into stealing child at the Odoguyan area of Ikorodu.
The suspect who was paraded yesterday by the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Imohimi Edgal, said her action was out of deaspiration after a herbalist had told her that she would never bear a child.
Badmus said without her husband’s consent, she applied for a job at the house of One Shukurat Opeoluwadu at No 1, Adeyiga Street, Odoguyan, Ikorodu in Lagos with the motive of stealing her baby.
According to CP Edgal, who paraded the suspect at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja, the mother of the baby who left to hawk local herbal medicine(Agbo) had kept the baby in the care of her 50-year-old neighbour identified as Oluwakemi Amosun.
Edgal said that on sensing Amosun was busy outside her room, Badmus had quietly gone into the room, stole the baby and absconded.
The State Police Chief said, “ On September 27, 2018, the mother of the child had made a formal complaint of a missing child. Based on the complaint, I activated the Anti-kidnapping organ of the command to go after the suspect and rescue the baby.
“ Investigation was instituted and eventually the suspect was arrested at Sabo area of Ikorodu.
“The baby was rescued from her and has been reunited with her parents. The suspect has confessed to the crime and on the conclusion of the investigation, all persons involved in this dastardly act will surely be prosecuted.”
