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A mother of six from Guru village in outskirt
of Bauchi, Bauchi State has confessed that
she threw her one day old infant into the
soak-away shortly after delivering her at home
because of hardship.
Juliana James, an indigene of Shendan LGA
of Plateau State, wept profusely as she spoke
with journalists at the Police Command
Headquarters in Bauchi, saying she loved her
child.
The housewife who lives with her husband
James and her six children-five girls and a
boy in a one room apartment claimed that
things were so rough for her family that she
decided that the way out was to sacrifice the
new born.
“Things are hard. My husband has no job. He
had an accident three months ago he is still in
the hospital ago and the situation became
worse for us. We don’t see food to eat. We
were dying of starvation.
I delivered at home and threw the baby in the
toilet because I don’t know how we are going
to take care of it. I didn’t tell my husband,”
she narrated amidst sobs.
The newborn whose cry attracted neighbours,
was rescued alive nearly 12 hours later before
being rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa
University Teaching Hospital for medical
attention.
A source claimed that Juliana seemed to be
depressed due to hardship. “She was a
hardworking mother who fried bean-cake in
the neighborhood but for some time now,
during her pregnancy, she had not been
coming out. May be the recession took it’s
toll on her,” the source said.
[color =blue]OUR UNRELIABLE APROKO reports a
government source told him the way women
are throwing babies and some people are
kidnapping babies, a network need to be made
that would link the kidnappers of babies to
the mothers who don't want theirs, you know
something like what Oyinbo people call
adoption agencies.[/color]
