Delta: Dog eats 4-month-old baby

It was a tale of sad news for a family in Asaba, Delta State at the weekend as their four months old baby and only child was killed by their dog which bit the infant’s stomach open in an attempt to eat it up. Reports say that mother of the child, Maureen Akowe, a 37-year-old house wife and graduate of sociology of the Delta State University drove the child, the dog, and her nanny to purchase baby items. On getting to the popular supermarket along Okpanam Road, Asaba, Maureen left the baby, the nanny and the dog inside the car and wound down the windows to allow ventilation into the car while she went to make her purchases inside the supermarket. While she was busy shopping, the dog allegedly made straight for the little baby to eat her up while the nanny screamed for help but all to no avail. The shouts by the nanny attracted two security personnel at the supermarket to the car but by which time the baby, identified as Chinonso, had been bitten severally on the stomach by the dog, leaving the baby in a pool of blood. Witnesses said the dog had gone wild and was barking menacingly to scare away sympathisers by the time the baby’s mother got wind of the development and rushed to the scene. The baby was taken to a nearby hospital along Nnebisi Road, but it was too late. By the time they got to the hospital, the baby, the woman’s first child, had already died. The nanny who claimed to hail from the south east of the country, and did not want her name in print said “Madam carry the dog and baby and asked us to stay inside the car, because the dog was to be treated at the veterinary.

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“Suddenly I saw the dog moving closer to the baby and I shouted for help when the dog opened its teeth and I ran out of the car to call madam but she did not come on time”. Family sources said that the house wife had been married for three years without a baby before she took in and gave birth to Chinonso. Reacting, the husband of the woman amidst tears, who also did not want his name in print said “my wife said it is the devil’s work and the devil’s work will take her out of my house, I had warned her about the dog when I noticed that the dog had been behaving funny. She still kept carrying the dog claiming that she was going to give treatment to the dog. This is how the devil has ruined her”. RipplesNigeria… without borders, without fears

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