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KATSINA: Mother, daughter in police net for dumping dead baby in dustbin
Men of the Katsina Police Command have apprehended a 25-year-old woman, Qamariya Ismail, and her 45-year-old mother, Hassana Sabi’u, for dumping a healthy one-day-old baby in a dustbin whose lifeless body was later discovered days later.
Confirming the incident, DSP Gambo Isah, the spokesman for the Katsina Police Command, said Ismail, who resides at Sabuwar Kasuwa Quarters in Katsina, had owned up to being the mother of the dead infant and was assisted by her mother, Sabi’u, to dump the infant’s corpse in a dustbin.
DSP Gambo said, “On July 31, 2017, at about 16:00hrs, a dead female new-born baby was found inside a dustbin at Madugu House along Yahaya Madaki Way, Katsina State.
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“Investigation was carried out and the abandoned dead baby was traced to one Qamariya Ismail, aged 25, of Sabuwar Kasuwa Quarters, Katsina, whom her neighbours knew had been pregnant.
“The suspect, when arrested, confessed that her mother, one Hassana Sabi’u, aged 45, of the same address, helped her to throw the baby inside the said garbage bin. Investigation into this case is still ongoing.”
DSP Gambo added that the pair are currently being grilled by police detectives in connection with the discovery of the corpse and will both be prosecuted when investigations into the matter were concluded.
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