A woman identified as Falilat Olatunji, a resident of Ayobo in Ipaja area of the state, has been arrested for allegedly stealing a four-month-old baby in Ogun State.
According to reports, Olatunji stole the baby in other to present the child to her husband as the result of a pregnancy that she had faked to her husband.
The report also stated that she sneaked into the mother’s room, Taiwo Bello, at Iyana Lojola, Mile Two, Abeokuta and stole the baby who was asleep while the mother was washing somewhere in the compound.
Bello, on getting to the room, discovered that her child was missing and raised an alarm immediately which beckoned the attention of her neighbours who did a search on the premises.
After a long unsuccessful search for the child, a community leader Alhaji Abdul Dawodu, ran to the Sabo Ilupeju Police Division to report the incidence.
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Police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi, who is a Deputy Superintendent (DSP) said a search was immediately mobilised and operatives put on notice which paid off as a woman was seen with a baby who fit the description at Ilewo Orile and immediately arrested.
She then confessed, during interrogation, to stealing the child in other to authenticate her fake pregnancy.