Akwa ibom Police Arrested a 30 Year Old Woman for Allegedly Stealing a Month Old Baby from her Mother (See Photo)

The Suspect and the baby

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested
a 30-year old woman, Peace Chukwuemeka, for
stealing a month-old baby from her mother.
It was alleged that Chukwuemeka drugged the
mother of the baby before stealing the child.
The state Police Commissioner, Mr. Murtala Mani,
said this while speaking with journalists on the
activities of the command in Uyo on Tuesday.
Mani, who spoke through the Police Public
Relations Officer in the state, Cordelia Nwawe,
stated that the suspect lived in the same compound
with the mother of the baby at Mbak Itam in Itu
Local Government Area.
He added that the family unit of the command,
acting on intelligence, rescued the baby and
handed it over to the mother.
“Let us say clearly that in the month of November,
the Acid Section through the Family Unit of the
Nigeria Police Force in Akwa Ibom was able to
record a great feat by bringing back a one-month-
and-some-few-days-old baby to her mother in
Akwa Ibom.
“The suspected woman, who has been married for
some years without giving birth to a baby, left
Lagos State for Uyo, stayed in a compound in Mbak
Itam with the intention to steal a baby from her
neighbour.
“The Family Unit of the command, through
intelligence report, was able to rescue the baby,”
Mani said.
Mani added that the police also rescued a four-
year-old boy from a young man, who snatched him
from his mother at gun point.
Confessing to the crime, Peace Chukwuemeka, said
she had married for 10 years without giving birth to
a child and had been desperate to have a baby.
She, however, denied drugging the mother of the
baby.
“I did not give anything to the mother; it was a
coincidence that she was asleep and seized that
opportunity to take the baby.
“I have been married for 10 years now, so I need a
baby of my own. I took the baby to my mother in
the village but she refused to collect her from me. I
came back to Akwa Ibom and the mother of the
baby started asking me of her baby and I was
arrested,” Chukwuemeka confessed.