According to the Punch, Patience took the baby from Blessing on the day he was born and handed him over to their former neighbour, Ijeoma Okechukwu who paid them 250,000naira a few days after.
When asked by residents, Blessing initially said that her baby was dead, but later opened up to a church member, Comfort Ogwuebu, who helped her family with accommodation, that her child was with Okechukwu.
Comfort Ogwuebu then reportedly alerted policemen from the Zone 2 Police Command, who arrested the suspect and recovered the child.
Blessing who had earlier had a child for her boyfriend, Valentine, who got her pregnant the second time said she resisted the pressure to abort the pregnancy because she didn’t want to die. However, according to her, she was bothered about what would become of the baby hence, her mother told her Okechukwu had agreed to take him after delivery.
Her mother, Patience, 39, said she had been weighed down by the burden of caring for her three children and Blessing’s first child before she came home with a second unwanted pregnancy. Due to this, she saw Okechukwu’s intervention as an answer to prayer, adding that she thought her assistance would help the family out of poverty.
Okechukwu, 35 who bought the baby said she was only helping the family.
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