(SCID), Iyaganku have investigated the case of a 28-year-old lady, Ms
Kemi Adeoye, who was arrested by policemen from Sanyo Division for
stealing a baby in a church during a vigil service on Friday September
7, 2012.
The lady, according to police sources, had attended a church service
on the fateful day and had picked a baby where she had been laid while
her mother was praying in front of the altar. Please click to
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After picking the baby, the lady had reportedly left for one of the
chalets within the church premises and locked herself in, after she
had put the baby on her back.
The mother had raised an alarm when she got back to her seat and
beheld an empty bed without her baby on it, a situation which caused
members who were at the vigil to halt the service while they trooped
out in search of the missing baby.
Simultaneously, a drama had ensued at the chalet area where one of the
church workers had noticed that there was an occupant in a chalet
which he had not allocated to anyone. Curious to know the occupant and
how he or she got the key, the workers was said to have knocked on the
door.
To his surprise, a voice from inside the room replied his enquiry on
the identity of the occupant with another question, asking who the man
was.
The door was said to have been forced open and a woman with a baby on
her back was discovered in the room. It was at that time that members
of the church searching for the baby got to where the chalets were,
only for the baby's mother to see that it was her baby the woman was
putting on her back.
The suspect was said to have been taken to the police station where
she told the police that she was sent by a woman to go and steal a
baby. She also told them that she had once taken a child from a CAC
church at Apete but could not say where she took the baby to.