Woman steals three-year-old baby at Redemption Camp

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 28 year-old woman identified as Anuoluwapo Joshua, for allegedly stealing a three year old baby, Akamaka Francis, at the Redemption Camp.

The suspect according to the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect stole the child during last July Holy Congress of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,held at the camp ground located on the corridor of the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway.

The mother of the baby was said to have reported the incident to the Police having declared her child missing.

She, however, found her on the December 29 during children’s end of the year party held inside the Youth Center also on the camp ground.

The suspect, according to Oyeyemi, was arrested by team of detectives led by the Divisional Police Officer-in-charge of Redeemed Division, SP Olaiya Martins, after the party, when she came to pick up the child

The PPRO said “On receiving the information, the DPO of Redeemed Division, SP Olaiya Martins, led detectives to the Center where they waited until the end of the programme, when the suspect came out to pick the child and was promptly arrested.

“She has since confessed to the crime. She said she lured the child out of her parents’ sight and took her to Ofada area in Obafemi-Owode local government area of Ogun State, where she has been taking care of the child since then.

“Investigation further revealed that the suspect had earlier got pregnant for someone in Lagos but travelled to the North where she claimed she had delivered a baby girl. But when she came back from the North, she didn’t come with the baby which made the man who impregnated her to put pressure on her to bring his child to him.

“She later informed her relatives that she was going to Nasarawa State to bring the child, but went to the RCCG Camp where she stayed for some days before succeeding in stealing the child which she presented to her relatives as her daughter”.

The State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ilyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for further investigation and prosecution.