The 14-year-old house help who abducted her madam’s 2-year-old son has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command.
Favour Iwuozor, who was nabbed on Monday, January 3rd, 2022 is alleged to have fled with her captive from a church service on the 19th of December.
The father of the toddler narrated how the suspect was employed in the second week of November from an agent whom his wife knew very well and trusted.
He said that Favour attended the church service with his wife and their 2 children. Midway through the service, his wife got a call from a customer in her hairdressing salon, so she left and instructed the house help to meet her up with the children after service.
Unfortunately, the maid took the youngest of the kids and fled to an unknown destination.
The spokesperson for the Ogun State Police Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said that the suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged at the Sagamu Divisional headquarters by one Victoria Nwafor.
Nwafor reported that she saw a 14-year-old girl on the 22nd of December, 2021 with a 2-year-old boy in Yaba, Lagos.
She stated further that the little girl was begging for alms under the pretext that the small boy is her younger brother and that their parents died in an accident in December 2020.
Out of compassion, the woman took both of them to her house in Sagamu in order to take care of the little boy’s deteriorating health condition.
But immediately the boy fully recovered, the suspect wanted to single-handedly take the boy to Imo state. This aroused the woman’s suspicion, hence her report.
On receiving the report, Sagamu division, CSP okiki Agunbiade detailed his detectives to go and bring the girl and the little boy.
On interrogation, the girl confessed that she was a maid to the mother of the little boy, and that she left with the boy since the 19th of December 2021, with the intention of taking the boy to Amraku Umorsu in Isiala/Mbano local government area of Imo state.
She stated further that, she took the baby from the church during Sunday school period, and since the Sunday school teacher knows her with the baby’s mother, she had no problem releasing the baby to her. She explained further that she decided to beg for alms in order to raise transport fare to Imo state. ” Oyeyemi said
The police spokesperson added that the Commissioner of police CP Lanre Bankole ordered that the baby’s parents be contacted, while the case be forwarded to Lagos state command whose jurisdiction the crime was actually committed.