Oh No! Evil Birth Attendant Arrested after Stealing Newborn Baby and Giving a Dead One to the Mother in Lagos (Photos)

Posted by Odinaka on Wed 11th Jan, 2017 - tori.ng

For allegedly stealing a newborn baby and giving a dead one to a nursing mother, a birth attendant and his daughter, have been busted by security operatives in Lagos.

Jamiu and the stolen baby

A 65-year-old house painter identified as Jamiu Jimoh, and his hairdresser/birth attendant daughter, Yetunde Osin, have been arrested by the gallant operatives of Lagos State Police Command from Igbogbo Police Station, in Ikorodu area of the state for allegedly stealing a baby.

Speaking exclusively to Vanguard, a police source disclosed that 35-year-old spinster, Osin practises her trade at her residence in Oyingbo, adding that last year, she assisted a woman, identified as Stella, to deliver a baby girl and afterwards, told the woman that the child died, and reportedly showed Stella a dead child. She then took the new born baby to her father, Jamiu Jimoh, in Ikorodu.

Speaking while being interrogated after her arrest, Osin stated that she found the baby under a bridge near her home at Oyingbo.

She said: “On November 9, I was walking along the road in Oyingbo and found a baby on the ground. It was a female child, so I took it. That was the mistake I made. I should have gone to report to the police, but because it was a female baby, I liked her.

“That was how I took the baby home to Oyingbo. But when I saw how everyone was behaving and gossiping, I had to take the baby to my father in Ikorodu.

The baby

“Even when I could not come to Ikorodu from Oyingbo, my father was there to take care of her. Not long after I left his place on Sunday, someone called me on phone at night, saying my father had been arrested.

“I am a hairdresser, but I am also a traditional birth attendant. The baby was not delivered at my place. I was not the one that helped the mother of the child deliver the baby.

“But when the police heard that I was a traditional birth attendant and asked me if I assisted the baby’s mother during delivery, I said yes. But I found the baby under the bridge at Apapa Road in Oyingbo and she has been with me since November," she said.

Meanwhile, her father Jimoh, who resides in Ikorodu, said he is not aware that the baby was stolen, when the baby was found with him.

He said: “Osin is not the baby’s mother. She was not pregnant. I do not know the baby’s mother. My daughter has never brought children to me before.”