CRIME WATCH
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a woman for allegedly stealing a two - week old baby. Also, the stolen child has been rescued.
SATURDAY Crimewatch learnt that child was stolen from her mother by one, Mrs. Ifeoluwa Yekini on October 31, 2015, in Abule Ifo, in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State and she was subsequently rescued on November 14, 2015, following the arrest of the suspect.
According to Mr. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, trouble began when the suspect, who had been monitoring the mother of the baby when she was still pregnant, went under the pretense of felicitating with her at home after delivery and requested to assist the mother of the newborn baby in strapping her to her back, which the former obliged.
Adejobi continued: “She further requested to take the mother and baby out for shopping, which the mother also, obliged. But at the market, the suspect ran away with the baby to an unknown place. The mother of the baby, after several efforts to locate suspect with the baby, reported the case to the police at the Police Divisional Headquarters in Ifo for search and necessary investigation.
“Meanwhile, the suspect, who had been on some medications to deceive her husband about being pregnant, took permission from her husband to visit her parents, in another village, from where she put a phone call across to her husband that she had put to bed. This was so suspicious and her relations and neighbours raised the alarm, which compelled her to flee to Onipanu area in Ota, Ogun state where she was eventually arrested on November 14, 2015.”
Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) said the suspect was arrested by combined police teams from Onipanu and Ifo Divisions of the Command when the suspects, who had been placed under surveillance by the police was cited in the area.
He said the Commissioner of Police Ogun State Command, CP Abdulmajid Ali has charged parents to protect their children and wards always. Adejobi stressed that the case should be a lesson to all mothers.
The CP, he said, had directed that the case be charged to court, vowing that the command would not tolerate any act of criminality in Ogun State.
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