The Bauchi State police Command has arrested a 19-year-old house wife, Hindatu Abdullahi, who allegedly poisoned her two weeks step son to death with toxic insecticide.
Abdullahi, a mother of one, who was paraded alongside other suspects at Police headquarters in Bauchi on Wednesday, confessed committing the crime.
She said trouble in her two years marriage forced her to kill her step son with toxic insecticide.
According to her, “I was forced to marry my husband as a second wife at age of 17. I never loved him and since we got married, my husband and his first wife have been maltreating me so I decided to poison the boy out of frustration.”
Weeping while narrating her ordeal, Abduallah said, “I was taken to vigilante group who gave me 80 lashes of cane before I was brought to police station. I am regretting my action. I never knew what came over me. I’m begging for forgiveness from my husband, eldest wife and security operatives.”
Parading the suspect, the Police Public Relations Office of the state command, DSP Kamal Datti Abubakar, said, “On 19/08/2017, a case was reported at Maina Maji division that in the house of one Abdullahi Ori Male of Wurs Bogga village, Duguri district of Alkaleri LG, whom went for this year’s hajj pilgrimage at Saudi Arabia leaving his two wives at home, Fatima Abdullahi and Hindatu Abdulahi, the younger wife.
“The said Hindatu Abdullahi collected the child of her co-wife, Fatima Abdullahi, named Mohammed Abdullahi, a two-week-old baby and went into her room with the baby and put into his mouth an insecticide popularly known as pia-pia as a result the baby became unconscious and was rushed to nearby dispensary and later the baby died.
“The suspect was arrested and also the remaining quantity of the toxic insecticide was also recovered now on the process of scientific examination. The suspect confessed to the offense of which she will be charged to court after investigation,” he said”.
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