Wicked mum: Slaughters own seven-month-old baby
From MATTHIAS NWOGU, Umuahia
Thursday, March 12, 2009


The serene village of Nchara Oloko, Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State was thrown into confusion recently as a woman slit the throat of her seven-month-old son and dumped him in the house of her lover in protest.

The 32-year-old mother, Mrs Amarachi Ajagba has five other children possibly from a previous marriage before giving birth to the one she slaughtered, claiming that she did so to protest her abandonment by her lover to solely take care of the baby.
It was gathered that the lover, Mr Ibeabuchi Ememandu, a commercial motorcyclist had a fling with her, which resulted in pregnancy. He consequently accepted responsibility, but did not cater for the baby.

Amarachi who took care of the baby for seven months allegedly got fed up on the fateful day and felt she could no longer bear the burden alone. She therefore took the fatal decision, slaughtered the baby, took him in her wrapper and dumped the corpse in his lover’s house. Mr Soji Alabi, Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Abia State Command where the incident was first reported said the woman confessed that she carried out the heartless act in the residence of a pastor in one of the pentecostal churches in the area, using his kitchen knife.
His words, “A confessional statement made by the woman indicated that Mr Ememandu refused to take care of her and the baby hence her action.

However, Mr Ememandu denied abandoning the baby and the woman, saying he “never failed to take care of her during and after the birth of the child” and wondered why she should take such an extreme action of terminating the life of the baby who was already seven months old.

Another riddle in the episode is that there were no bloodstains on the boy and the wrapper with which she brought the corpse to the lover’s house, raising suspicion on the whereabouts of the innocent child’s blood.
The lover, who reported the incident to the NSCDC said it was his sister who alerted him to the corpse dumped in his house.

Meanwhile, the NSCDC has transferred the matter on the Abia State Police Command Umuahia for further investigation, even as the Commandant of the Corps, Dauda D. Mungadi frowned at the growing lack of respect for human life in the state.

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