Traditional Birth Attendant Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Patient’s Child

The Lagos state Police command, has arrested a traditional birth attendant, Yetunde Osin, for allegedly stealing one of her patient’s newborn babies. Her father, Jamiu Jimoh, a painter was supposedly her accomplice in carrying out this evil act.

Vanguard, reports that the divorced father and his 35 -year -old daughter are currently in custody at the Igbogbo Police Station, in Ikorodu area of Lagos.

Reports reveal that Osin assisted a 28- year -old woman named Stella to deliver her baby last year. Thereafter, she reportedly told Stella that her baby had passed away. She went further to show Stella a dead child as evidence.

She took the newborn to her father’s house when she could not handle the gossip circulating at her residence.

Narrating the story, she said:

“On November 9, I was walking along the road in Oyingbo and found a baby on the ground. It was a female child, so I took it. That was the mistake I made. I should have gone to report to the police, but because it was a female baby, I liked her. “That was how I took the baby home to Oyingbo. But when I saw how everyone was behaving and gossiping, I had to take the baby to my father in Ikorodu. “Even when I could not come to Ikorodu from Oyingbo, my father was there to take care of her. Not long after I left his place on Sunday, someone called me on phone at night, saying my father had been arrested. “I am a hairdresser, but I am also a traditional birth attendant. The baby was not delivered at my place. I was not the one that helped the mother of the child deliver the baby. “But when the police heard that I was a traditional birth attendant and asked me if I assisted the baby’s mother during delivery, I said yes. But I found the baby under the bridge at Apapa Road in Oyingbo and she has been with me since November.”

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Meanwhile, her father claiming to be ignorant of the situation, had this to say:

“Osin is not the baby’s mother. She was not pregnant. I do not know the baby’s mother. My daughter has never brought children to me before.”

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