Saturday, March 9, 2024 - The police in Lagos state have arrested a mother identified as Rukayat for allegedly attempting to poison her epileptic child.
According to police sources, Rukayat had
taken her one year seven month old child, Wuraola, to the Lagos University
Teaching Hospital with complains that she wasn't feeling well.
In the course of the treatment, Rukayat confessed to the
doctor that on March 3, she gave her child an insecticide to drink with hopes
she would die immediately. According to Rukayat, she had tried every means to
ensure her child's epileptic nature stopped but all efforts have been futile
and, so she decided to poison her.
The doctors on ground were able to treat
the child while the mother was immediately handed over to the police for
further investigation and prosecution.
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