Man impregnates wife’s teenage sister, buries baby after birth

The police in Bayelsa State have apprehended a 47-year-old
man, Moses Otimba, for killing a five-day-old baby boy he
fathered with the younger sister of his pregnant wife.

The suspect impregnated the girl, Joy, and allegedly killed the
child and buried it in a shallow grave near a river.

Otimba, an indigene of Ogbogoro community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state, was said to have carried out the act in connivance with Joy in order to hide the paternity of the baby.

Joy, 18, allegedly refused to disclose the identity of the father
of her unborn baby throughout the nine months she was
pregnant.

Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State Command, Asuquo
Amba, who paraded the suspects said policemen from the
Yenagoa Police Division arrested the​m on August 15, 2017​.

The CP said: “Mr. Moses Otimba, male, 47, impregnated one
Joy Matthew, 18, a younger sister to his wife, Glory.

“The pregnant Joy was delivered of the baby by a traditional
birth attendant at Amarata, Yenagoa on May 8, 2017.

“On May 13, 2017, Moses, Joy and the baby left the birth
attendant and went across the Swali Bridge where Moses took the baby from his mother, went down the shore, suffocated the baby and buried the body in a shallow grave.”

”​The police visited the scene of the incident.​ By the time they
got to the scene, the current of the river had washed away the
child’s body.

‘’The suspect, Moses Otimba, has confessed to the crime and
Joy has also confessed her alleged involvement in the murder
of the baby.​ Investigation is ongoing.’’

Otimba​ said he killed the baby because with the consent of
Joy​.

Otimba said: “I killed the baby boy because I was afraid.​ I did
not really know how to face my wife and my mother-in-law.
“I am really sorry.​ I took the baby to the bush in my community and closed his nose until he died.

“When I was carrying out the act, I was weeping and crying but
I had no choice.

“When I got to the site, he was five days old then.​ I closed his
nose and within some seconds, he stopped breathing.

“After that, I started regretting.​ The mother of the baby agreed
that we should kill him.

“I told Joy that I did not know how to tell my wife about the
development.

“On that day, she was carrying the baby.​ She gladly gave me
the baby to do as I wished.

“My wife was not aware of all of this.​ ​​But somehow, I did not
know what happened.

“I learnt the baby’s mother told her mother who alerted the
police and we were arrested.”