It was an act of  mother’s inhumnity to her child when a 19- year-old lady, Nsidibe Effiong strangled and dumped her three weeks-old baby in a pit toilet, blaming her act on frustration.

Saturday  Tribune gathered  that Effiong  had her first child  less than a  year and a half ago   and was still nursing and breast-feeding him when she gave birth to the second one.

the suspect, who hails from Ikot Abasi Idem village in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government of  Akwa ibom state   was  pregnant  and  was due to put to bed, but  was later found  by her neigbours  to be without the pregnancy or the baby.

Curious and suspicious, they   launched  into  action by  calling the attention of the police  to their discovery.

Investigation by the police  later  revealed that the lady had strangled the three weeks-old baby and dropped her  in a pit toilet few weeks after delivery.

Being paraded at the Akwa bom state Police Headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia, the police commissioner, Mr. Solomon Arase told journalists that Nsidebe had admitted committing the crime and had confessed that she had strangled the baby with a towel and dumped it into a pit toilet.

Pleading for  leniency by the police, Nsidibe maintained that it was poverty that drove her into the  act, saying that the man who was responsible for the pregnancy had fled the vicinity as soon as he discovered that she was pregnant.

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