Why Mum-of-2 Dumped Her Baby At An Orphanage & Fled With Lover

Blessing Ochonogor, 28, allegedly abandoned her husband Paul Jubril, 34, in jail and thereafter dumped her daughter in an orphanage in order to live with another man.

The Sun reports that Jubril and Ochonogor were living as a couple with their two children in Abuja before he got arrested for an unknown offence. Upon his return, he discovered that his Ochonogor had fled their home with their two children. He opened up about the issue saying:

“I went to Suleja prison. When I came back in January 2017, I couldn’t find my wife and two kids. It was later I heard that my daughter Ifeoma, was at an orphanage home at Arab Road, Kubwa Abuja.

In trying to understand what could have prompted Ochonogor, to do what she did. I remember we had a misunderstanding in 2016 but I didn’t know she would pack out of the house with our two children, Peter Smith who is seven years old and Ifeoma, who is two years and three months.”

Police findings suggest that Ochonogor had taken her daughter to an orphanage claiming she was abandoned by her parents and later moved in with another man. The orphanage however contacted her when they realized the child was ill and was diagnosed with HIV. The child later died as it was too late to save her.

In her defence, Ochonogor told The Sun that she was not legally married to Jubril, they were merely boyfriend and girlfriend however, before she knew it she already had two kids for him. Explaining why she fled their home, she said:

“Whenever I have a quarrel with my boyfriend, he used to beat me to a state of coma. When I couldn’t bear it anymore, I have to pack out from the house to sleep in an uncompleted building for three days.  I took my child Ifeoma, to the orphanage home at Arab Road, Kubwa Abuja. I deceived them that the parents of the child are dead. It’s true, I didn’t go there to check my child, and I went only once. Later, I went to marry another man.

Suddenly, the orphanage home called me that the child I brought to them was ill. I refused to go there initially but later I went and took the child to Gwarimpa General Hospital and they diagnosed her of HIV and we were referred to the National Hospital but in the process the baby died on December 2016”

However, Jubril, has refused to accept his daughter died from HIV, which led him to involve the authorities. He said:

“I have to report the case at Kubwa phase 4 police station Abuja. I didn’t believe that my child could die of HIV. When I was going to prison in December 2016, my child was in good health. I don’t know why my child will die of HIV. I don’t have HIV, likewise, my seven years old son, Peter Smith. I want to know the cause of death of my child.

My child is now at the mortuary at Kubwa General Hospital. Before I bury my child, I am still insisting to know what killed her. It is my girlfriend who is responsible for the death of my child”, Jubril lamented.”

In her plea, with respect to the death of her child, Ochonogor, said:

“I never killed my child. It was frustration that prompted me to take the child to orphanage home. My Father and Mother are not living together. There is nobody I can handover my child to when I was in predicament. Since I am no longer with my boyfriend, he has threatened to kill me. Since the death of my child, my boyfriend has been accusing me of killing our child with HIV.

It is not possible to kill my own daughter. When life is so difficult for me, I have to marry another man. My boyfriend didn’t give us rest of mind since he came back from prison. My boyfriend has frustrated my life and I am not going back to his house again”

The FCT (Federal Capital Territory) Police Commissioner, Mohammed Mustapha, told The Sun that his Command would encourage the Paul and Blessing settle their differences and bury the baby abandoned in the morgue.

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