A 4-day-old baby boy has been gruesomely
murdered by his own mother who fed him
with a N40 rat poison. Binta Shuaibu, 20,
conspired with her friend, Hindatu Umar, 27,
to commit the dastardly act in Katsina State.
Read the story below and what she said led
her in committing the crime.
What could make a mother willfully kill her
own baby? The suspect, Binta tells her story
to Sunday Sun: “I was born in Layin-Ruwa,
Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State.
I got married 11years ago and my husband,
Inusa later forced me to divorce him. I have
only one son, Aminu for him.
“After the divorce, I decided to go into
prostitution. The money I got from
prostitution is what I use to feed my father in
the village. My father had divorced my
mother because my mother begged him to
allow me to return to my former husband,
but my father rejected the advice. My father
divorced my mother because of that.
“While engaged in prostitution, I suddenly had
an unwanted pregnancy, which I did not
terminate. I was able to conceal the
pregnancy and successfully had the baby boy
delivered in my room.
“The ward head, Maiunguwa in the village
where I was doing prostitution had warned all
prostitutes not to have unwanted pregnancy,
and that anyone who got pregnant must
relocate to any nearby village to deliver and
care for the baby there.
“But because of the warning by village head, I
was at a loss to what to do with the baby
and my calling as a prostitute.
“My good friend, Hindatu Umar suggested
that since we do not want to stop
prostitution, we should kill the baby. We both
went into the street and bought rat poison for
N40 and used it to kill the baby.”
Asked how the baby was actually killed, Binta
said, “It was about midnight that the act was
carried out. I told my friend, Hindatu that I
would not want to witness the killing of my
own child.
“Hindatu was the one who fed my baby with
the poison. She forced him to drink the
poison. When she wanted to do it, I went into
the other room and took a drug, Valium 5 and
slept off. I woke up to see that my baby was
dead. We wrapped the dead body with
clothes.”
News of the heinous crime soon filtered out
and the partners in crime were apprehended.
Binta spoke further, “Unknown to us, the
ward head had heard about the news that my
baby was killed. He quickly went to Danja
Police Station, reported the incident and we
were arrested by the police.” In her own
confession, Hindatu Umar said, “I am a
prostitute. My friend, Binta delivered a baby
boy and we have a law by the ward head in
the village of Danja that he doesn’t want any
unwanted pregnancy and that any of us
prostitutes who gets pregnant should leave
the village and deliver the baby in the next
village.
“We still enjoy our job as prostitutes and so,
we both decided to kill the baby. I suggested
to her to kill the baby. We went into the
street and bought local rat killer and by
midnight I gave the baby the poison and he
drank the poison and died instantly. I took
the container and dropped it in the toilet.
Later the news spread and policemen from
Danja Police Station arrested us.”
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