Court remands 4 for allegedly dumping 2 children in stream

BAUCHI — The Bauchi State Chief Magistrate's court has remanded four

suspects who allegedly dumped two children in Dumi stream, in Bauchi

Local Government Area.

It was recently reported that two children were dumped inside a stream

by unknown persons in Bauchi. One of the children died while the other

survived.

The four suspects including the parents of the children were arrested

by the Police and arraigned in court.

Police prosecutor, Inspector Amos Ukpe, had filed two separate cases

over the incident.

In the first case, he charged the four suspects with criminal

conspiracy and culpable homicide, contrary to sections 221 and 96 of

the penal code.

Ukpe also charged the parents of the child who survived for criminal

conspiracy and abandonment, contrary to sections 96 and 237 of the

penal code.

The prosecutor told the court that a ward head of Gwallaga, Mallam

Dandada Ahmadu reported to the Bauchi Township police station that a

woman called Sakina Ibrahim of Dajin Village in Tafawa Balewa Local

Government who claimed to be a herbalist told the two parents that

their children were not normal human beings and advised them to dump

them in the stream so that they will drown to which the parents

complied.

Inspector Ukpe said: "When the herbalist in company of the parents

took the children and dumped them inside stream in Dumi village, one

of the children, Adamu Suleiman Danjuma (two years) survived and was

rescued by good Samaritans while the other boy, Aliyu Suleiman Haruna

(four years old) got drowned and died in the stream.



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