"I KILLED MY ONE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER,COS SHE STOPPED ME FROM STUDYING LAW"

One Adisa Fumilola, 22 years old has given the reason while she drowned her one-year-old baby in Lagos. 

She was arrested for killing her daughter, on Monday  Oluwanifemi, at their place of residence on Plot 221 Gowon Estate, in the Ipaja area of Lagos State.

Funmi blamed her one-year-old daughter Oluwanifemi for the hardship she had been facing after she gave birth to her 21 months ago, adding that the daughter’s arrival cost her an admission to study law.

In a bid to alleviate her suffering, Oluwafunmilola said she drowned her baby in a bucket of water, adding that after committing the crime, she went to the Gowon Estate Police Station to report herself.

According to her, she got pregnant two years ago while attending JAMB lesson at City of Success Centre at Abeokuta, Ogun State for one Yussuf Folarin who abandoned her on realizing she was pregnant and since then her life has changed as she had to forfeit her career to take care of the child.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, confirmed the situation saying, when me3ro daily got the report that a woman was suspected to have killed her baby, our homicide detectives went there and found the baby dead on the bed. But the woman left a note beside the baby’s corpse that she was the one who killed her.

Elkana added that the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department has commenced an investigation into the matter. The suspect will be charged for the crime.