A mother of six from guru village
in outskirt of bauchi, bauchi state has confessed that she threw her one day
old infant into the soak -away shortly after delivering her at home because of
hardship.
Juliana James, an indigene of
Shendan LGA of Plateau state, wept profusely as she spoke with journalists at
the police command headquarters in bauchi, saying she loved her child.
The housewife who lives with her
husband James and her six children-five girls and a boy in a one room apartment
– claimed that things were so rough for her family that she decided that the
way out was to sacrifice the new born.
“Things are hard. My husband has
no job. He had an accident three months ago he is still in the hospital ago and
the situation became worse for us. We don’t see food to eat. We were dying of
starvation. I delivered at home and threw the
baby in the toilet because i don’t know how we are going to take care of it. i
didn’t tell my husband," she narrated amidst sobs.
The new-born whose cry attracted
neighbours, was rescued alive nearly 12 hours later before being rushed to the
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital for medical attention. .
A source claimed that Juliana
seemed to be depressed due to hardship. “She was a hardworking mother who fried
bean-cake in the neighbourhood but for some time now, during her pregnancy, she
had not been coming out. May be the recession took its toll on her.” The source
said.
SOURCE: www.eyesoflagos.com
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