The lady was arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on
Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, who recovered the baby
from a sack under the bridge.
It was learnt that the men were on a raid to dislodge commercial buses
causing obstruction on the highways in the area when one of them saw Timileyin
dumping her baby.
The official was said to have walked down to the spot and found the baby
n*ked in the bag while the mother had fled.
“The streetlights around the bridge exposed her. The officer spotted from
distance that someone dropped a bag and started running. He quickly moved
towards the bag and when he saw that it was a baby that was packaged inside it,
he chased the woman and arrested her.” a source said.
Eighteen-year-old Timileyin was said to have confessed to investigators
that her mother sent her and the baby out as she could not identify the baby’s
father.
She said, “I dropped out from school out of poverty while in JSS 2. I was
living with my mother at 26, Coker Street, Ejigbo, Lagos and my father died
nine years ago.
“My mother sent me out because I gave birth and could not identify the
man who impregnated me as different men slept with me.”
The task force Chairman, SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, who confirmed the
incident, said the mother disclosed that she took the action as she could no
longer take care of the baby.
Lagos Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, after being briefed on the
incident, was said to have directed that both the rescued baby and his mother
be immediately transferred to Social Welfare Department of the Lagos State
Ministry of Youths and Social Development.
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