Marriage Full of Secrets: Why Nasarawa Couple Abducted Mentally Deranged Woman’s Baby (A Must Read)
For the Nasarawa State-based couple, Theresa and Awaji Chodi, it was like divine love made in heaven when they consummated their marriage 15 years ago.
Some months into their sizzling union, both agreed to abstain from sex until the completion of their traditional marriage rites, unknown to Theresa, 41, that her 43-year-old hubby who suggested the idea, was born impotent, Sun News shared.
Read their sorry story…
“Barely a year after our marriage, I had a strong feeling he was impotent because no able-bodied man would spend a year with a woman sleeping on same bed without having sex, more so, when the woman is your own wife. Several times, I attempted to lure him into sex by deploying my romantic skills while putting on sexy night gowns, but he was never moved.Initially, I didn’t know he was avoiding sex because of his impotence. When we got married, he wasn’t doing his job at night; the situation was really bad and made me sad. Any time I approached him for sex, he gave one excuse or another and we never had sex.I was so depressed. Almost every night, I cried and cried because I didn’t know what to do. Inside me, I also knew I don’t have a womb to conceive even if my husband had performed his duty as a man, but the truth is that I loved him so much and I didn’t want to commit adultery.It however got to a point in recent times when I couldn’t bear the urge for sex and had no choice than to succumb to advances by some guys to satisfy myself,” Theresa revealed.
“I told him I had discovered he was impotent, that there was no way he could have sex with me to bear children. It was so glaring that he couldn’t deny it; he admitted the fact and told me he grew up to discover he was impotent,” she said.“I equally revealed to him what he didn’t know all these years of our marriage; that even if he had been able to have sex with me, I wouldn’t have conceived because my womb had been damaged long ago in the course of aborting an unwanted pregnancy.”
“I kept tab on her at an auto mechanic workshop where she stays in our neighbourhood, and provided her needs; we thought she would deliver in August, this year, but she didn’t until September 21. When she started labour early in the morning, our plan was that if she didn’t deliver after eight hours, we would take her to a hospital, but she eventually delivered at about 6.pm”, she narrated.
“I had already bought powdered baby food, a feeding bottle and prepared hot water to feed the baby if he started crying while on transit.My husband drove to his village at Akwanga and we told his people I was delivered of a baby boy through caesarian session, during which there were complications and doctors advised I should not breast-feed the baby for now.To avoid suspicion, my husband returned to our home at Utaba Alefi same day, and continued his work as a cab driver.The next morning, the mad woman started crying persistently and residents who gathered around her were shocked to discover that her baby was missing, but none could fathom what had happened and the baby’s whereabouts”, Theresa further revealed.
Expectedly, Austine doubted the possibility of the couple having a baby without Theresa nursing a pregnancy, and swiftly dodged to create the impression he didn’t see them. The couple who thought they were lucky not to have been sighted by their former neighbour got the shock of their lives when he dealt a devastating blow on them.
Convinced that the couple stole the missing baby of the mad woman back home, he alerted members of a vigilante group before trailing them as they made their way out of the hospital to get drugs prescribed for the baby at a pharmacy close to a flyover bridge in Keffi.
Oblivious that danger lurked ahead, the couple hurried home with the baby after purchasing the required drugs, but walked into an ambush of the vigilante men.
Plea for mercy
It was at this point our correspondent got to the scene where a large crowd had formed as the vigilante men interrogated them on the ownership of the child. They were later dragged to their new home where they confessed to stealing the three-week-old baby from a mad woman at Utaba Atefi, and pleaded for mercy.
They do not want to be taken to the police to face the wrath of the law, but the vigilante men insisted they had no choice.
“It was cruel fate which made both of us to conceal the reality that led us to this mess; it was desperation to have a child that pushed us into this devilish act,” they pleaded.
As a team of the vigilante men drove out of the scene at about 4.pm in a bus alongside Austine, for further investigation at Ulaba Atefi, where the couple stole the child from the mentally challenged woman, our correspondent took the opportunity, to engage them in a chat, during which they told their heart-wrenching story.
Barely an hour later, the vigilante men returned with the biological mother of the child to the scene, but the woman could only manage to utter a few words and kept mute after being reunited with her baby.
For Awaji, holder of a Diploma in Public Administration from the University of Abuja, it was a shameful act for which he would not want to face prosecution. He wants the matter resolved behind closed doors. Our correspondent could, however, not ascertain if he eventually achieved his desire.
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So because she’s not mentally sound, they had to steal her baby? That’s wicked.