Delta lady who dumped baby inside well will be charged for infanticide – Police

Delta State Commissioner of Police Abaniwonda Olufemi has confirmed that the 24-year-old woman who dumped her one-and-half-year-old babe wrong the good has been arrested implicit a lawsuit of infanticide.

The suspect, Sofia Nkwor, from Nsien, Ndokwa East LGA, committed the transgression connected April 28, 2024, on the roadworthy successful Araya community, Isoko South Local Government Area of the state.

The commissioner of police, who confirmed the development, said the transgression was reported astatine Oleh Police Division, Isoko South LGA. He besides confirmed that the fishy is successful custody and that probe is ongoing.

He said children who went to play astir the histrion discovered the abandoned kid floating successful the well, prompting them to rise an alarm.

When Sofia was interviewed, she stated that she dumped the boy, Destiny, successful the good connected April 26, 2024.

“The begetter abandoned maine aft denying the babe and my grandma, whom I americium staying with, arsenic abandoned me.

“As a farmer, the babe was distracting maine from my farming job. I was really successful a atrocious temper erstwhile I did it. I loved the babe but was helpless then. No helper. I was unsocial taking attraction of her. It was aft the vigilante arrested maine and handed maine implicit to the constabulary that l realised what l did,” Sofia stated.