A rent-a-baby beggar, Hafsa Asirinka Ibrahim, has appeared before an Ebute
Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly drugging a baby to death.
The accused, 40, is facing a
two-count charge of murder and conspiracy.
The plea of the accused was,
however, not taken.
The Magistrate, Mrs Helen
Omisore, ordered that the accused be remanded at Ikoyi Prisons pending advice
from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The Prosecutor, Sgt. Edet
Ekpo had told the court that the accused committed the offences on Nov. 15,
2016 at about 9.46 p.m. at Balogun area of Lagos Island.
He alleged that the accused
was in the business of taking babies from their mother for alms begging on the
streets to pay them later.
“The accused will drug them
to sleep throughout the day while begging for alms on the road.
“On the said date, the
accused administered a sleeping drug on a nine-month-old Hassana Jemilo (now
deceased) and did not know that he had given her an overdose.
“The baby did not wake up
again as a result of the overdose,” he said.
The offences contravened
Sections 223 and 233 of the Criminal Law of Lagos state, 2015.
Further hearing in the case
has been adjourned to May 16.
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