A 20-year-old woman, Rafiat Oseni, has
been brought before an Ebute-Meta Magistrate’s court for allegedly
killing her day-old baby by flushing him down a public toilet.
The incident happened at Alaba Rago Market, Ojo area of Lagos State.
It was learnt that Oseni, who hails from
one of the Northern states in the country, worked as a sales girl in
the market and had entered the toilet pretending to ease herself.
She was said to have forced the baby into the toilet, but the baby got stuck in it.
He died as people were attempting to rescue him.
The magistrate, Mr Olanrewaju Olatunji, in obvious shock, asked the suspect why she decided to kill her own child.
Instead of responding, Oseni burst into tears and pleaded for forgiveness.
Olatunji then called the Investigating Police Officer, Woman Corporal Veronica Uket, who narrated the incident.
She said, “Oseni went to the public
toilet on January 3, 2014 around 2.30pm. She was said to have pretended
that she wanted to ease herself.
“She came out and nobody suspected
anything. When she left, the baby started crying. It was another woman
who wanted to use the toilet that first saw the child and called the
attention of the woman in charge of the public toilet.
“People went there and saw that the baby
was stuck inside the toilet. By the time they removed him, they saw
that he was already dead.”
Uket said the suspect could not be found
on the day of the incident, but she was caught the following day when
she showed up again in the market for work.
She was subsequently handed over to the police who arraigned her on Wednesday on one count of murder.
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