Udeogu Chinelo, a 37-yr-old woman, arrested by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Tr@fficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Anambra State command, has said the three-year-old she be@t to de@th and d¥mped in a bush was her granddaughter.
The suspect was arrested on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at a Primary School in Awka, where she had earlier enrolled the victim and had gone to collect back the school fees she paid for her.
The spokesperson of NAPTIP in the state, Okafor Anthony, in a statement on Thursday, October 6, said: “While being questioned on the whereabout of the victim, she disclosed that the victim had d#ed. The suspect led the operatives of NAPTIP to the scene where she disp@sed the body of the victim.
On arriving the scene the victim’s dec@mposing body was found wrapped in a black nylon bag where the suspect d¥mped her in the bush around Hezekiah Dike Crescent Awka.
The suspect claimed that the deceased victim is her granddaughter. The victim was reported to have d#ed on the 29th September, 2022.”
Chinelo claimed she fl@gged the deceased some days ago and left m@rks on her body because she defec@ted in a bucket they used in having their bath at home.
She added that the deceased is her grandchild born by her 19-year-old daughter. She said her daughter abandoned the baby with her shortly after she was born.
