The Lagos Police Command have
detained a mother named Rukayat on suspicion of attempting to poison her
epileptic child.According to police sources,
Rukayat had taken her one year seven month old child, Wuraola, to the Lagos
University Teaching Hospital with complains that she wasn't feeling well.
In the course of the treatment,
Rukayat confessed to the doctor that on March 3, she gave her child an
insecticide to drink with hopes she would die immediately. According to
Rukayat, she had tried every means to ensure her child's epileptic nature
stopped but all efforts have been futile and, so she decided to poison her.
The doctors on ground were able
to treat the child while the mother was immediately handed over to the police
for further investigation and prosecution.
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