Nigeria: 3 Abandoned Babies Found in Bauchi
Daily Trust (Abuja)
31 August 2007Posted to the web 31 August 2007
Ahmed MohammedBauchi
Three babies were found in Bauchi, two in hotel rooms while the other one was found inside the toilet of his mother's house.
Daily Trust investigations revealed that two babies were found dead and one was alive.
Speaking to Daily Trust over the incident the police public relations officer (PPRO), Bauchi state police command, ASP Alhassan Idris Gambo, said " one person, John Mathias of Igbo quarters ward in Bauchi, has reported to the Bauchi township police station that he suspected that the junior sister of his wife, Victoria Andrew, had delivered a baby and thrown it inside the toilet.”
ASP Alhassan added "police went to the house and found the baby which they removed from the toilet and took it to the Bauchi Specialist Hospital where the doctor confirmed the baby dead. The mother of the baby was admitted in the Hospital and maybe charged to court when she recovers from her illness".
The police PPRO said the other two babies; one found in one of the hotels in Yelwa had decomposed when he was found in the dustbin inside the room and the other one survived, adding that police are still investigating the two incidents.
He added, "The Bauchi state police command is worried about the increase in these criminal. Acts any person caught will face the wrath of the law and advised anybody with useful information to come and inform the police.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Dogs adopt baby in rural Kenye
By Rodrique Ngowi
Nairobi -A nursing dog foraging for food retrieved an abandoned baby girl in a forest in Kenya and carried the infant to its litter of puppies, witnesses said on Monday.The stray dog carried the infant across a busy road in a poor neighborhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital, Nairobi, Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.The dog apparently found the baby on Friday in the plastic bag in which the infant had been abandoned, said Aggrey Mwalimu, owner of the compound where the animal is now living. It was unclear how the baby survived in the bag without suffocating.
Doctors said the baby had been abandoned about two days before the dog discovered her. Medical workers later found maggots in the infant's umbilical cord, a product of days of neglect, Hannah Gakuo, the spokesperson of the Kenyatta National Hospital, where the girl was taken for treatment, said on Monday. No one has yet claimed the baby, she said.But the 3.3kg infant "is doing well, responding to treatment, she is stable... she is on antibiotics," Gakuo told The Associated Press. Workers at the hospital are calling the child Angel, she said.Unwanted infants are often abandoned in Kenya - sometimes they are even dumped into pit latrines. Poverty and mothers' failed relationships with fathers are often blamed for the problem, and Kenya's weak law enforcement and social security systems means that most people who abandon babies are never caught."Abandoned babies are normally taken to the Kenyatta National Hospital because it is a public hospital," Gakuo said. "People are now donating diapers and baby clothes for this one." - Sapa-AP
Nairobi -A nursing dog foraging for food retrieved an abandoned baby girl in a forest in Kenya and carried the infant to its litter of puppies, witnesses said on Monday.The stray dog carried the infant across a busy road in a poor neighborhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital, Nairobi, Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.The dog apparently found the baby on Friday in the plastic bag in which the infant had been abandoned, said Aggrey Mwalimu, owner of the compound where the animal is now living. It was unclear how the baby survived in the bag without suffocating.
Doctors said the baby had been abandoned about two days before the dog discovered her. Medical workers later found maggots in the infant's umbilical cord, a product of days of neglect, Hannah Gakuo, the spokesperson of the Kenyatta National Hospital, where the girl was taken for treatment, said on Monday. No one has yet claimed the baby, she said.But the 3.3kg infant "is doing well, responding to treatment, she is stable... she is on antibiotics," Gakuo told The Associated Press. Workers at the hospital are calling the child Angel, she said.Unwanted infants are often abandoned in Kenya - sometimes they are even dumped into pit latrines. Poverty and mothers' failed relationships with fathers are often blamed for the problem, and Kenya's weak law enforcement and social security systems means that most people who abandon babies are never caught."Abandoned babies are normally taken to the Kenyatta National Hospital because it is a public hospital," Gakuo said. "People are now donating diapers and baby clothes for this one." - Sapa-AP
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