A child thief has been caught by the police after he broke into a home and stole a baby leaving the mother of the child distraugtht.
Happiness Umaru caught with the baby he stole
A man has been caught after he stole a baby from the room where the baby was kept. The thief identified as 26-year-old Happiness Umaru was intercepted at Eric Moore in Surulere by policemen attached to the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, at about 10p.m. on March 16. The incident happened in Lagos.
When he was Interrogated, Umaru claimed to be the biological father of the baby but later confessed that he found the baby around Ijora Railway, when he went into a bush to answer the call of nature.
When officers from the Gender Department for further investigation, visited the scene of the incident, they located the biological mother of the baby who narrated how her baby was stolen from the room.
According to the mother of the baby, Patricia Victor, “I laid my seven months old baby (Favour Victor) on the bed inside my house at about 8p.m., to buy food for my son.
“By the time I returned with the food for my older son, my baby had disappeared. I raised alarm and neighbours joined me in the search all thorough the night, but we did not find him.
“I did not know that police officers had arrested the man who stole my baby. Luckily, when they came the next day to investigate the case, they located me.”
The baby has been released to the mother, while Happiness Umaru, the suspect, will be charged to court today.