The Katsina Police Command have arrested a 28-year-old housewife
for allegedly killing her 40-day-old stepson at Majoji Village in Mai’adua areaof Katsina State.
The Katsina State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bensen Gwana,
paraded the suspect before newsmen on Friday in Katsina.
“The suspect allegedly poisoned the baby through giving him
drinking water. The mother of the baby suspected foul-play and took the baby to
the Mai’adua Hospital and later Daura General Hospital where it was confirmed
that the boy was poisoned.
“The baby died at the Daura General Hospital when medical
experts failed to stop the continuous watery stooling and vomiting,” the police
boss said.
Reacting to the allegation, the suspect denied that she
intentionally killed the baby, saying that she only used her hand to give the
baby the drinking water.
She said she had used her hand to spread rat poison but did
not wash the said hand and gave the baby water with it.
“The mother of the baby and my husband have forgiven me, but
the parents of my co-wife were those insisting that I must be punished,” she
told newsmen.
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