PART OF THE HUSSLE? Woman caught begging for money with borrowed babies in onitsha

A woman identified as Mrs Blessing Ubom was
arrested with two babies at the MCC Pedestrian
Bridge, Onitsha.
The suspect, who hails from Calabar, Cross
River State was brought to Anambra
Broadcasting Service (ABS) last week by
residents who suspected that the two babies
were not hers because they had been seeing
her with only one baby.
On interrogation, the woman insisted that she
gave birth to the babies on third of August this
year at Army barracks where she lives with her
blind husband, Mr Ubom Glory Emmanuel. He
confirmed that the suspect is his wife, however,
he said that one of the baby boys belonged to
them and that his wife had borrowed the other
baby boy from their relative to attract sympathy
and more money from the public.
Mr Emmanuel, who pleaded for pardon as
begging was their only means of survival,
claimed to have told his wife to take only their
baby but she told him that people do not give
her money so she had to borrow another one.
The teenage single mother of the baby boy,
Happiness Emmanuel who later appeared at the
police station said she gave out her baby boy
for begging in order to sustain herself, adding
that the woman gives her one thousand, five
hundred naira whenever she takes baby to beg
for alms. The suspects are currently in police
custody.


Source :LIB
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE