Wonders, it is said, will never end, as law enforcement agents in Ogun State Police Command apprehended a 14-year-old housemaid, Favour Iwuozor, on Monday, January 3, 2022, for allegedly abducting her mistress’s two-year-old son, with the intent of taking him to Imo State, before nemesis caught up with her.
Thenewsbearer learnt that freedom however came for the toddler through the help of a woman, Victoria Nwafor, who reported at Sagamu divisional headquarters that she saw the teenager on Wednesday, December 22, 2021, with the two-year-old boy, who was obviously very sick, in Yaba Lagos State.
The command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who gave details of the teenager’s arrest on Tuesday, January 4, said that Ms Nwafor told the police at Sagamu Division that she saw the teenager begging for alms, pretending that the toddler was her younger brother and that their parents died in a ghastly auto crash in December 2020.
According to the PPRO, “out of compassion, the woman (Nwafor) took both of them to her house in Sagamu, Ogun State, in order to take care of the little boy’s deteriorating health condition.
“But immediately the boy fully recovered, the suspect wanted to single-handedly take the boy to Imo State. This aroused the woman’s suspicion, hence her report.”
Oyeyemi stated further that the woman’s statement made the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Sagamu Division, CSP Okiki Agunbiade to send his detectives to bring the girl and the little boy.
“On interrogation, the girl confessed that she was a maid to the mother of the little boy, and that she left with the boy since December 19, 2021, with the intention of taking him to Amraku Umorsu in Isiala/Mberna Local Government Area of Imo State.
“She stated further that, she took the boy from the church during Sunday school period, and since the Sunday school teacher knew her with the baby’s mother, she had no suspicion in releasing the baby to her,” the PPRO explained.
The teenage suspect further told the police that she decided to beg for alms in order to raise transport fare to Imo State.
Oyeyemi said that the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole had ordered his officers to promptly contact the toddler’s parents, while the case should be transferred to Lagos State Police Command in which jurisdiction the crime was committed.
