A 20-year-old mother identified as Faith Alhassan has been arrested in Kaduna State for allegedly killing her one year old baby girl.
According to reports, Faith threw her baby into a well in order to get back at her boyfriend, the father of the child who was not willing to marry her or accept the child.
Kaduna State Police command disclosed that on 28th December 2020 at about 7 am, the corpse of a baby girl was found in a well at Gantan village of Kachia local government area of the State.
The police further informed that, upon receipt of the report, an investigation was carried out and it was discovered that the mother of the dead baby girl was the culprit,
When asked why she was at the police command, she said, “I am here because of my daughter that I threw into the well and she died. I don’t know what came over me when I carried out the act”.
Asked whether it was because she wanted to marry her ex-boyfriend that she killed her daughter, she said in tears, “I did not kill her because I want to marry, I just don’t know what entered me, I am not happy for doing it.”
The Kaduna State Police Commissioner CP Umar M. Muri said she will be arraigned in court upon completion of the investigation.
