Mother Kills One-year-old Son With Insecticide In C’River
Category: Odd & Bizarre News
Residents of Atimbo community in Calabar Municipality of Cross
River State were thrown into mournful mood as a mother, Ikwo Udoh Bob,
20, allegedly snuffed life out of her one-year-three-months-old baby boy
by forcing him to drink poisonous substance suspected to be
insecticide.
The infanticide is believed to have happened in the wee hours of
Friday. The mother was said to have had a running battle with the man
suspected to be responsible for the pregnancy even before the baby was
born.
She was alleged to have told some close friends that she did not want
to keep the baby. According to the neighbours’ accounts, the young
mother was piqued that she was abandoned by her lover-boy at the most
critical moment of her life even when she pleaded with the man to
financially support her after delivery of the baby.
Frustrated that the alleged father of the baby failed to provide
financial support for the upkeep of the infant after delivery, Ikwo
allegedly killed her young son. Speaking to our correspondent in tears,
the father of the young woman, Mr. Udoh Bob, said, “Yesterday was the
second time my daughter attempted to kill the boy, named Victor.”
Narrating the incident, Bob, who is a timber dealer and a native of
Eket in Akwa Ibom State, said in an emotion-laden tone, “I left the
house in the morning on that Friday without sensing any ominous sign
that my daughter was hatching such an evil plan.
I don’t know what to tell you now but I want to believe that God
knows the whole thing. Before I left the house in the morning yesterday,
the boy called me daddy as usual and waved at me. I waved back only to
return and was told he was dead.
I took over the responsibility of caring for the mother and child
after the young man who impregnated her denied her and ran away,” he
said in an emotion-laden tone.”
He recalled that there was a day he noticed the boy foaming from the
mouth and he quickly gave him palm oil to drink, an act, which, he said,
neutralized the effect of the poison, adding, “Now that this has
happened, I believe she attempted to kill the boy then, but God did not
allow it.”
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