There was confusion recently in Asaba, Delta State, when a 37-year-old house wife, Maureen Akowe, a graduate of sociology from the state-owned university, allegedly lost her four-month-old baby to her dog.
It was gathered that the baby was driven in the mother’s car alongside the dog to a popular supermarket along Okpanam Road, Asaba, where the house wife had gone for shopping for the baby’s upkeep.
Leadership reports that the unsuspecting nursing mother left the baby, a nanny and the dog inside the car and wound down the windows to allow ventilation into the car before moving into the supermarket.
Report says while she was busy shopping, the dog allegedly made straight for the little baby to eat her up while the nanny screamed for help but all to no avail.
The shouts by the nanny attracted two security personnel at the supermarket to the car but by which time the baby, identified as Chinonso, had been bitten severally on the stomach by the dog, leaving the baby in a pool of blood.
The baby was taken to a nearby hospital along Nnebisi Road, but it was too late by the time they got to the hospital as the baby, the woman’s first child, had already died.
The nanny while speaking with newsmen said, “Madam asked us to stay inside the car, because the dog was to be treated at the veterinary; suddenly, I saw the dog moving closer to the baby and I shouted for help when the dog opened its teeth. I ran out of the car to call madam but she did not come on time”.
In a swift reaction, the husband of the woman amidst tears, said “my wife said it is the devil’s work and that devil’s work will take her out of my house, I have warned her about the dog when I noticed that the dog had been behaving funny. She still kept carrying the dog claiming that she was going to give treatment to the dog. This is how the devil had ruined her.”
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