A woman identified as Mrs Blessing Ubom, who hails from
Calabar, Cross River State was arrested with two babies at the MCC
Pedestrian Bridge, Onitsha.
The suspectwas brought to Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) last
week by residents who suspected that the two babies were not hers
because they had been seeing her with only one baby.
On interrogation, the woman insisted that she gave birth to the
babies on third of August this year at Army barracks where she lives
with her blind husband, Mr Ubom Glory Emmanuel. He confirmed that the
suspect is his wife, however, he said that one of the baby boys belonged
to them and that his wife had borrowed the other baby boy from their
relative to attract sympathy and more money from the public.
Mr Emmanuel, who pleaded for pardon as begging was their only means
of survival, claimed to have told his wife to take only their baby but
she told him that people do not give her money so she had to borrow
another one.
The teenage single mother of the baby boy, Happiness Emmanuel who
later appeared at the police station said she gave out her baby boy for
begging in order to sustain herself, adding that the woman gives her one
thousand, five hundred naira whenever she takes baby to beg for alms.
The suspects are currently in police custody.
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