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.
According to
Sunday Sun,
they learnt from the Ebonyi State Police Commissioner, Maigari Dikko,
nemesis caught up with Otu when neighbours began asking her about the
baby.
Realising that providence had put the spot light on her secret, Otu
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.