The police at the ‘B’ Division, Asaba, Delta State, have arrested a housewife identified as Rosemary Edeh for allegedly stealing a five-year-old girl under the custody of a house help around Okwue community in the state.
Reports said the suspect was arrested in her attempt to run away with the baby after deceiving the custodian that she was going to buy biscuits for her a few houses away from the scene of the crime.
Police officers at the division who spoke to LEADERSHIP on the condition of anonymity said the woman lured the house help to come to her house with the little girl after the parents of the baby had gone to the farm and oblivious of her intentions, the house help took the girl to her house where she was served a meal of pounded yam, after which the woman went out with the baby under the guise of buying biscuits for her.
The house help was said to have while eating, suspected foul play and she moved to the house of another neighbour where she informed a man of the woman’s uncomfortable actions and the man was said to have immediately swung into action to put the police on alert after which they were said to have laid siege for the unsuspecting housewife.
LEADERSHIP gathered that the suspect has been married for 15 years without a child and has been facing pressure to either give the family children or vacate the matrimonial home.
She was said to have contemplated adopting a child but was advised by a friend she told of her plan not to venture into such, saying that if she adopted a child, it might blow open in no distant time.
Kola Niyi-Eke
