Woman Pretended She Was Helping A Trader Look After Her Baby To Abduct The Baby As Mother Looked Away.

A market in Badagry Lagos State was thrown into panic when a woman named only as T-girl went into the market to abduct a trader’s baby. It was gathered that the well know T-girl pretended she was helping the mother Mrs. Alimat Adebowale, strapped 2 months old baby Kudus Adebowale on her back and when no one was looking, made away with the baby.

A customer who witnessed it all told Punch said: 

“Nobody knew when she (T-girl) disappeared from the market with the baby. The mother had looked back to check on Kudus, when she discovered that she had left the market with her child. We called her number, but she didn’t pick our calls. That was when it occurred to us that she had stolen the baby.

“I don’t really blame Iya Kudus. She thought the child was in a safe hand because almost everybody here knows T-girl. She would come to buy things here and play with us. She is from Ibadan (Oyo State) and had lived here for more than four years before she travelled some months ago. She came back last week,” a woman, Kemi Agboola, who sells bread and drinks in the market, said.

A resident, Kayode Paul said the police arrested T-girl in Ibadan after some passengers with whom she boarded a bus en route to the Oyo State capital raised the alarm.

“It was said the bus had a minor accident on the way to Ibadan and the driver had to wait for some moments. As they were waiting, Kudus started crying and the passengers urged her to breastfeed him. She refused.

“As the baby’s cries increased, they compelled her to breastfeed him and she reluctantly agreed. But the baby did not suck her breasts, which made the passengers to be suspicious. After threatening to beat her up, she said she was taking the baby to her mother in Ibadan.”

Alimat, who spoke with journalists and said she had been reunited with her baby. 

She said, “People were playing with my baby that day when she said I should also allow her to take him, but I refused. She asked if she had offended me and pleaded that I should let her carry him. I suddenly discovered that I didn’t see her again and people joined me to search for her to no avail.

“My child was two months  old that day. The woman used to come here to buy drinks and play with us. I am now with my baby. We will return to Lagos on Monday (today).”