Idoma woman arrested for burying her newly born baby alive in Mararaba

An Idoma woman believed to be in her late 30s has been arrested and detained at the Mararaba Police station Nasarawa State, for allegedly killing and burying her newly born baby alive at the early hours of Sunday.

IDOMA VOICE gathered that the incident happened today in her compound at Kabayi area of Nasarawa State by Sharp Corner before St. Theresa Catholic Church.

The woman, who gave her full name as Mrs. Esther Amos, told the police that she hailed from Adupi Orokam in Ogbadibo local government area Benue State.

An eyewitness, Odiba Sunday, said the woman was said have four other children but told the Police during interrogation that she has no particular husband at the moment, noting that all her other four children were not from the same father, a pointer to the fact that her action may have been triggered by difficulty in copping with feeding and up keep expenses of the child if she grows up.

It was gathered reliably that Ene (as she was popularly called in that neighborhood ) had been pregnant for an unknown man to the knowledge of her compound people for months and she was expected to give birth soon, but problem started when they surprisingly the pregnancy disappeared to the thin air and no any trace of a new born baby in her room.

Suspecting a fowl play, the youths in the area trooped out in their large numbers to her apartment and harassed the woman, her little child told the youth that she saw her mother gave birth over night but also saw her tied a nylon leather on the newly born baby’s neck and later dug a hole where she buried the baby.

The woman was threatened to show where the baby was buried by the youths and she later obliged, report says the body of the one-day old baby was exhumed from the earth near her house .

The angry youths later on attempted to lynch the woman but she was rescued by members of the Nigeria police force who intervened and rushed her to Mararaba police Station from the sharp corner police station.

Esther Amos is right now at the Mararaba police station.