Categories: Crime

24-Year-Old Kills 1-Year-Old Son Over Inability To Cater For Him

A 24-year-old woman, Sofia Nkwo, has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for killing her one-year-old son.

The woman was paraded on Thursday.

She was said to have killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.

READ: Police Arrest Over 50 As Hoodlums Clash In Lagos

Also paraded were fake alcoholic producers, murder, kidnapping suspects, and car snatchers, among others.

Parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abaniwonda Olufemi, frowned at the evil act perpetuated by the woman.

He said, “On April 28, 2024, a case of infanticide was reported at Oleh Division, that a suspect named Sofia Nkwor, 24, from Isoko south LGA, dump her child of one year and four month old in a well along the road in Araya community, Isoko south LGA.

“Children who went to play around the tree discovered the abandoned child floating on the well. The mother, Sofia Nkwor, was immediately arrested, and she stated that she dumped the child on 26th April 2024.

Confessing to the crime, Nkwo said that she killed her son because she couldn’t care for the child again as the father rejected the child.

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