Four women nabbed for stealing 8-month old baby

Four women in Asaba, Delta State were on Tuesday, May 8 arrested by the police in connection with a stolen baby.

According to, Mr. Charles Muka, the Police Public Relations Officer: “On May 6, the Ogwashi-Uku Police Division received reliable information and trailed the suspects to Ossisioma in Abia and arrested the four women and recovered the child in good health.”

Speaking further, Muka added that the eight-month old baby; Destiny Umeh, was the son of Mr. Innocent Umeh, a commercial motorcyclist (okada) in Ogwashi-Uku, he noted that the child was stolen on April 27 at Ogwashi-Uku.

Amku however confirmed that two of the suspects were from Ogwashi-Uku while the other two, a nurse and her worker from Ossisioma in Abia State, were the receivers of the stolen baby, stressing that the suspects had confessed to the crime and were already helping the police to unravel the cases of child theft within Ogwashi-Uku and its environs in recent times.