A 47-year-old Nigerian man, identified as Moses Otimba has been reportedly arrested by the Bayelsa state police command for impregnating his wife’s 19-year-old sister, Joy Mathew and killing the male child five days after birth.
According to report, Moses killed the new baby by suffocating and burying him in a shallow grave at a river bank in May. Confirming the incident, the state Commissioner of Police, Asuquo Amba, who paraded the suspect and the 19-year-old sister-in-law at the command’s headquarters in Yenagoa, the state capital, said;
”Mr. Moses Otimba, male, 47, impregnated one Joy Matthew, 18, a younger sister to his wife, Glory. The pregnant Joy was delivered of the baby by a traditional birth attendant at Amarata, Yenagoa on May 8, 2017. On May 13, 2017, Moses, Joy and the baby left the birth attendant and went across Swali bridge where Moses took the baby from her mother (Joy), went down the river shore, sniffed the baby to death and buried him in a shallow grave.”
It was gathered that Joy who summoned courage to confide in her mother three months after the incident occurred, claimed she was hypnotized while the act was been carried out by Otimba, after which Joy’s mother alerted the Bayelsa police.
”The police visited the scene of the incident. By the time they got to the scene, the current of the river had washed off the child’s body. The suspect, Moses Otimba, has confessed to the crime and Joy Matthew has also confessed on her alleged involvement in the murder of the baby. Investigation is ongoing.” the commissioner added.
During interrogation, the suspect, Moses who would be arraigned in court soon according to report, disclosing that he killed the baby because he was too ashamed to confess to his wife that he had impregnated her younger sister, said
”I killed the baby boy because I was afraid and scared. I did not really know how to face my wife and my mother-in-law that was why I killed the baby. I am really sorry. I took the baby to the bush in my community and closed his nose until he died. When I was carrying out the act, I was weeping and crying but I had no choice. When I got to the site, he was five days old then, I closed his nose and within some seconds, he stopped breathing. After that, I started regretting. The mother of the baby agreed that we should kill the baby. I told Joy that the situation was precarious for me and that I did not know how to tell my wife about the development. On that day, she was carrying the baby. She gladly gave me the baby to do whatever I wanted to do. My wife was not aware of all of this. But somehow, I did not know what happened. I learnt the baby’s mother told her mother who alerted the police and we were arrested.”
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