Juliana Francis
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| Odumosu |
A 22-year-old lady, Funmilola Adisa, has
confessed to drowning her one-year and six months old baby because it allegedly
stood in her way of becoming a lawyer.
According to Adisa, she drowned the baby
in a bucket of water, in her apartment, located at the Gowon Estate, Lagos
State.
Adisa confessed: “I killed my baby because
she deprived me of realising my dream of becoming a lawyer. I drowned her
inside a bucket filled with water on Monday. Thereafter, I reported myself at
the Gowon Estate Police Station. The Police did not come immediately but when
they did, they found the dead baby inside the bucket.”
Adisa, who is now in Police custody, explained
that she was impregnated by a boy that attended the same Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) classes with her. When she told him that she was
pregnant for him, he asked her to go for an abortion, but her father wouldn’t
have any of that.
She said: “I passed my JAMB and was
offered admission to study Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, but
I had to defer the admission because of the baby. I wanted to take her to the
orphanage home at first, when it became difficult to take care of her. I live
with my sister who has no job and I am also not working. I felt there was no
use keeping her since I could not take care of her. I killed her because I was
frustrated but most importantly, because she stood in the way of actualising my
dream of becoming a lawyer.”
The suspect was taken to the Lagos State
Police Command headquarters, Ikeja, yesterday, from where the state’s Commissioner
of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, directed that she should be transferred to the
State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, (SCIID), Panti, Yaba.
Adisa’s elder sister, who did not want
her name mentioned, said she was shocked to hear that her younger sister committed
such act.
She added: "I suspected she was
gradually developing mental problem. Our mother had same mental problem before
she died. We live in the same apartment but have our separate bedrooms. I
didn't know when she drowned the baby, until the Police arrived.”
Police sources hinted that medical
checks would be conducted on the suspect to know her mental state.
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