Why we snatched mad woman baby, couple confesses

A couple in Agwa Tashi community, Obi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, Mr Thomas Agba and his wife Mary who were arrested for stealing a baby belonging to a mad woman has confessed to the crime, and why they carried out the act.

According to a report by the Nation, the wife narrated that she had been married for sixteen years without an issue.

 “Barely a year after our marriage, I discovered that he was an impotent man. There is no complete man on earth who will spend one year with a woman on the same bed without sex, more so your own wife.

“Sometime late last year, I woke up early in the morning and summoned courage to tell my husband the truth. I told him to his face that he is an impotent man and there is no way he can impregnate me for us to bear children.

“He admitted it, telling me that he grew up to discover that he was impotent. I also seized the chance to tell him that I also cannot bear a child because my womb is damaged.

“I suggested that we should adopt a baby and move to another location to give the impression that it is our biological baby.

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“On a second thought, I remembered that there was a mad pregnant woman around our area, so I decided that we should monitor her, draw her close to us and take her baby as soon as she was delivered of it instead of going through the long process of adopting a child in Abuja.

 “We both agreed to the idea and I started drawing the mad woman close to me by providing for her needs and somehow she became used to me.

According to Mary, while in the hospital with the mad woman where they had taken her for delivery, she sold the idea of snatching the baby to her husband, and then relocated from Akwanga to Lafia.

“So we abandoned the mad woman in Awe and relocated to Obi to settle there temporarily. Our intention was to move back to Lafia after one year and settle there permanently.

Mary said: “One week after, the newborn baby was not feeling so strong, so we took him to Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital for treatment.

“As we were trying to locate the children ward, we did not know that a former neighbour of ours in Akwanga was involved in an accident and was admitted at the hospital.

“His wife saw us with a baby and was visibly shocked. From that moment, she knew that we must have snatched the mad woman’s baby, more so because she knew that the mad woman was close to us and her whereabouts had become a source of concern.

“She quickly returned home and informed a few other people who later told some members of the vigilante group about our new location.”

Mary, who pleaded with the team not to hand her over to law enforcement agents, said she could not bear any child because her womb was damaged by a quack doctor during an abortion she had as secondary school pupil, adding that she did what she did out of frustration.

Also speaking, Thomas, who also pleaded that security agents should not be involved in the matter, admitted that he was impotent, adding that desperation to have a child led him to accept his wife’s proposal.

The couple has since led some members of the vigilante group to Awe in search of the mad woman.