Mother of 6 dump new born baby in toilet, confesses in Bauchi

A mother of six from Guru village in outskirt of Bauchi, 
Bauchi State has confessed that she threw her one day 
old infant into the  soakaway shortly after delivering her at home because of hardship.

Juliana James, an indigene of Shendan Local Government
Area of Plateau State, wept profusely as she spoke with
journalists at the police Command headquarters in Bauchi,
saying she loved her child.

The housewife who lives with her husband James and her
 six children (five girls and a boy) in a one room apartment
claimed that things were so rough for her family that she
decided that the way out was to sacrifice the new born.

“Things are hard. My husband has no job. He had an 
accident three  months ago. He is still in the hospital and 
the situation became worse for us. We don’t see food to eat.

 We were dying of starvation. I delivered at home and threw the baby into the toilet because I didn’t know how we are going to take care of it. I didn’t tell my husband, “ she narrated amidst sobs.

Juliana who claimed that the accident rendered her 
husband impotent three months ago, explained that when
 the cry of the baby in the soak away became too unbearable she changed her mind and , ran to her neighbours and told them everything.

The baby girl was rescued alive and taken to the
 Abubakar Tafawa University Teaching Hospital where she 
is currently receiving  medical attention.

A source close to the woman claimed that Juliana seemed 
to be depressed due to hardship. “She was a hardworking mother and House wife who fried kwosai (bean-cake in the
neighbourhood but for some time now during her pregnancy
she had not been coming out. May be the recession took its
toll on her,” the source who pleaded anonymity said.

Juliana was subsequently arrested by the police and is
currently being remanded at the police station.

The Commissioner of police Zaki Ahmed who paraded
 the suspect for child abandonment along with other 
suspects, said the case was being investigated while the rescued baby was handed to social welfare officials after she has been certified healthy.

Zaki who briefed the press yesterday on achievements
 of the command in the month of February, disclosed that 
131 suspects have been arrested for various crimes in the month under review. The CP while giving the breakdown, 
said that among the arrested suspects are 55 suspected kidnappers, 39 suspected armed robbers, 16 rape suspects among others.