Housewife dumps day-old baby into toilet without husband's knowledge
Residents in Okpoko of Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State were, on Thursday, shocked when the news broke that a housewife in the community, names withheld, had dumped her newborn baby into the toilet.
She was said to have a protruded stomach, a peculiar nature that made
many people in the area, not to be aware that she was pregnant.She
decided to dump the newborn baby into the toilet, to save her the agony of nursing a baby, which, she said, could disturb her business.
Nigerian Tribune gathered
that when a member of the family, her brother-in-law, wanted to use the
toilet, he discovered that water could not flush the waste, as his
faeces remained floating.
Her brother-in-law, a source revealed, therefore, decided to deep his
hand into the toilet, and discovered, to his surprise, that a placenta
had been dumped into the toilet, a situation which made him to scream,
attracting other residents to the scene, who in utter disbelief, removed
the lifeless baby from the toilet.
When the whole family met shortly after the incident and summoned other
family members, some of them saw traces of blood stain on the woman’s
clothes, the wife of their elder brother, but she refused to give
details of the bizarre act, and even denied knowledge of what happened.
She was thereafter taken to a maternity home where it was confirmed that she had given birth to a baby, but when the husband was contacted, he said his wife was in police custody and declined further comments.
