Monday , November 12, 2012
Linda Ikeji at 11:19 AM
Woman Throws
Her 5 Month Old
Baby Inside Well in
Oyo state

After a search by family members
and neighbours, which extended
till the following morning, Ganiyat
was reported to have confessed
to throwing the baby inside the
well after much prodding. People
were said to have rushed towards
the well to see if it was true and it
was a shocked crowd which
beheld the still body of the tot
when he was brought out of the
well.

On hearing about the incident, the
Divisional Crime Officer in charge
of Mapo Division, Mr Bayo
Ogundiran, reportedly led a team
of detectives to the scene and
arrested the mother, while the
baby was taken to Adeoyo
Hospital, Yemetu, where he was
confirmed dead. He was
thereafter deposited in the
mortuary for autopsy.
Ganiyat said she could not also
explain what made her throw her
baby in the well, expressing the
belief that forces greater than her
must have overwhelmed her at
that moment.

Narrating how the incident
occurred, Ganiyat said:
“On that day, I bathed the baby in
the evening, changed his clothes
and we both went to bed. About
8.30p.m, I rose from the bed,
carried the baby and took him to
the back of my room window
where the well is situated”.
“A spirit just came over me and
asked me to throw the baby
inside the well. I pushed the
planks on the well aside, threw
the baby inside and covered it
again”.
After some time, I told the tenant
living in the house that I could not
see my baby. He said he saw me
moments before with the baby. I
left my residence for my parents’
place at Oniyanrin area and told
my mother that I could not find
my baby but she kept asking me
where I kept the child.
“The following morning, many
people came and were shouting at
me, asking me where I threw the
baby. An elderly man in our family
then came to me, cajoling me to
tell him where the baby was. Then
I told him that the baby was in
the well. While some people
rushed towards the well, others
started beating me with
horsewhip, cane and different
objects. When the baby was
brought out, he was already dead.
A police patrol van came and I
was taken to the police station.”
Ganiyat, who said she was an
apprentice learning fashion
designing, disclosed that she was
impregnated by one Kehinde
Odugbemi, who was already
married, and that she delivered
the baby on June 4. She added
that the man could not be traced
until the day of the naming
ceremony when he came in the
evening to christen the child. She
said Odugbemi also came on June
12 to give her N1,000, adding that
that was the last time she set her
eyes on him.

Ganiyat was said to have given
birth to a boy before the birth of
the deceased baby but could not
get any man to claim the child.
The boy, who is said to be three
years old, is being taken care of by
Ganiyat’s mother.
http://lindaikeji..com/2012/11/woman-throws-her-5-month-old-baby.html?m=1

Eeeya. Maybe she was sleep walking. I doubt though.