Mother kills 4 days old baby with RAT POISON.

four-day-old baby boy has been
gruesomely murdered by his own mother
who fed him with a N40 rat poison. Binta
Shuaibu, 20, conspired with her friend,
Hindatu Umar, 27, to commit the dastardly
act in Dan Amarya village, Danja Local
Government Area of Katsina State.
The mother and her co-conspirator are now
answering to the wicked act in police
custody.
What could make a mother willfully kill
her own baby? The suspect, Binta tells her
story to Sunday Sun: “I was born in Layin-
Ruwa, Kafur Local Government Area
Katsina State. I got married 11years ago and
my husband, Inusa later forced me to
divorce him. I have only one son, Aminu
for him.
“After the divorce, I decided to go into
prostitution. The money I got from
prostitution is what I use to feed my father
in the village. My father had divorced my
mother because my mother begged him to
allow me to return to my former husband,
but my father rejected the advice. My father
divorced my mother because of that.
“While engaged in prostitution, I suddenly
had an unwanted pregnancy, which I did
not terminate. I was able to conceal the
pregnancy and successfully had the baby
boy delivered in my room.
“The ward head, Maiunguwa in the village
where I was doing prostitution had warned
all prostitutes not to have unwanted
pregnancy, and that anyone who got
pregnant must relocate to any nearby
village to deliver and care for the baby
there.
“But because of the warning by village
head, I was at a loss to what to do with the
baby and my calling as a prostitute.
“My good friend, Hindatu Umar suggested
that since we do not want to stop
prostitution, we should kill the baby. We
both went into the street and bought rat
poison for N40 and used it to kill the baby.”
Asked how the baby was actually killed,
Binta said, “It was about midnight that the
act was carried out. I told my friend,
Hindatu that I would not want to witness
the killing of my own child.
“Hindatu was the one who fed my baby
with the poison. She forced him to drink
the poison. When she wanted to do it, I
went into the other room and took a drug,
Valium 5 and slept off. I woke up to see that
my baby was dead. We wrapped the dead
body with clothes.”
News of the heinous crime soon filtered out
and the partners in crime were
apprehended.
Binta spoke further, “Unknown to us, the
ward head had heard about the news that
my baby was killed. He quickly went to
Danja Police Station, reported the incident
and we were arrested by the police.”
In her own confession, Hindatu Umar said,
“I am a prostitute. My friend, Binta
delivered a baby boy and we have a law by
the ward head in the village of Danja that
he doesn’t want any unwanted pregnancy
and that any of us prostitutes who gets
pregnant should leave the village and
deliver the baby in the next village.
“We still enjoy our job as prostitutes and so,
we both decided to kill the baby. I suggested
to her to kill the baby. We went into the
street and bought local rat killer and by
midnight I gave the baby the poison and he
drank the poison and died instantly. I took
the container and dropped it in the toilet.
Later the news spread and policemen from
Danja Police Station arrested us.”
Katsina State Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Mohammed Hurdi told Sunday Sun that “it
was when the news spread the following
morning that the ward head reported the
incident to Danja Police Station and this led
to the arrest of the two suspects, Binta
Shuaibu and Hindatu Umar who are
currently at the State CID under
investigation.”
CP Hurdi added that the baby had been
buried, while the mother of the baby, Binta
and her partner, both of whom conspired to
commit the murder, would face the wrath
of the law.
The commissioner said after investigation
had been concluded, the suspects would be
charged to court.
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