her third child, may spend the rest of her life behind bars for a first degree murder. She is currently at the custody of the homicide department of the Edo state Police command, Benin city, where detectives are already putting finishing touches to her cases file for allegedly poisoning and killing a 16- month-old baby boy, the same baby she actively participated in weaning with a killer chemical while the mother of the baby was away to fetch water.
As subsistence farmers, both Chinonye and her rival, Mercy with their siblings including the 16 months old baby strapped in her back, made for the nearby farm to harvest cassava tubers for the forthcoming market day. While in the farm, their husband soon joined them but left almost immediately to inspect some traps set for grass cutters. Moments after, Mrs Mercy left for the stream to fetch water for all.
Just then, Chinonye surreptitiously made for the hut which served as a resting place in the farm and by the corner of it was a container filled with chemical. She grabbed it and emptied some quantity into the mouth of the 16 -months -old baby who was at the time fast asleep on a mat.
The sleeping baby licked the liquid in innocence thinking it was a normal water. However, pandemonium broke out minutes later when the mother arrived from the stream to behold her child writhing in pains.
However, the lid was blown open after an autopsy report said the baby was poisoned. Investigations began, and Chinonye was to confess later amid tears to detectives, that she was responsible for the death of the baby. But she quickly dismissed insinuations that she committed the murderous act out of sheer jealousy.
“I did not mean to kill the boy after all they were all born in my presence. Although I am yet to bear a baby boy, that does not make me jealous of my rival who already has three boys. I am believing God for a boy child because as I speak to you, I am pregnant.
However, the police through the public relations officer, ASP Bassey, said the law would have to take its full course. “The moment our men are through with the investigation, she would be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction. Even though she has confessed culpability, for us, she is presumed innocent until otherwise is proven,” Bassey said.
-To hell with Chinonye, may she rot in hell!
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