Abandoned corpses of one-year-old baby, two others found

Residents of Uwa Street Junction and Second East Circular Road in Benin, Edo State woke up on Wednesday to the shocking discovery of the corpses of three children abandoned in the area by unidentified persons.

PUNCH Metro gathered that one of the dead children was a little girl, whose age was put around a year old.

Her body had yet to decompose, thus, giving the residents the belief that she might not have been abandoned there for long.

But the remains of the other two children, which were already decomposing, were abandoned under a palm tree along the road.

One of the residents, Mr. Victor Imonitie, who blamed the tragedy on indiscriminate pregnancy among young girls in the country,

called for the proper registration of pregnant women by the government, adding that such women should also be monitored after delivery to minimize such incidents.

He said, “I think the government should begin registering all pregnant women in the country and monitor them for at least two years after giving birth, because all these young girls getting pregnant indiscriminately could do such things.”

Another resident, who pleaded anonymity, attributed the incident to the high level of poverty among many Nigerians in the country and appealed to the Nigeria Police to remove the corpses in order to reduce panic in the area.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Edo State Command, DSP Noble Uwoh, said that he would get back to our correspondent. He had, however, yet to do so at the time of filing the report.

Our correspondent later learnt that some policemen from the Esigie Police Division were making arrangements to evacuate the bodies.

PUNCH