Rukayat, a 32-year-old woman from Lagos’ Oworonshoki neighborhood, was said to have admitted to giving her infant a snipper as a means of ending her life.
According to information obtained by City & Crime, the woman acknowledged giving the child the deadly drug to end her life since the infant was convulsing.
According to reports, Rukayat made her confession after the young patient was taken to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idiaraba, where she is now undergoing treatment.
According to a police source, the baby’s hospital condition is still fragile.
The woman will be charged, according to Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer Benjamin Hundeyin, in a WhatsApp message to City & Crime.
Hundeyin’s message read, “Woman who poisoned her baby to be arraigned at Ebute Meta magistrate court this morning (yesterday).”
“The case is an attempted murder. On Friday, at about 11am, information was received at Oworonshoki police station from the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of LUTH that one Rukayat brought her daughter, Wuraola, aged one year and seven months to the hospital for treatment.
“That the woman later confessed to the doctor that on February 3, 2024, when her daughter continued to be sick of epilepsy, she gave her sniper liquid to drink, so she can rest from the convulsive child.
“Detectives from the division were immediately dispatched to the hospital where they met the baby receiving treatment. Investigation is ongoing.” [CONTINUE READING HERE]
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