Maureen Akowe, a graduate of sociology from the state-owned university
allegedly lost her four-month-old baby to her dog.
It was gathered that the four- month-old baby was driven in the mother’s car
alongside the dog to a popular supermarket along Okpanam Road, Asaba, where the
house wife had gone for shopping for the baby’s upkeep.
Report says the unsuspecting nursing mother left the baby, a nanny and the dog
inside the car and
wound down the windows to allow ventilation into the car
before moving into the supermarket.
LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered from witnesses that while she was busy shopping, the
dog allegedly made straight for the little baby to eat her up while the nanny screamed
for help but all to no avail.
The shouts by the nanny attracted two security personnel at the supermarket to
the car but by which time the baby, identified as Chinonso, had been bitten
severally on the stomach by the dog, leaving the baby in a pool of blood.
The dog had gone wild and was barking menacingly to scare onlookers by the time
the baby’s mother got wind of the development and rushed to the scene.
The baby was taken to a nearby hospital along Nnebisi Road, but it was too late
by the time they got to the hospital as the baby, the woman’s first child, had
already died. The efforts of the helpers who had wanted to rescue the little
baby failed as the baby gave up the ghost before getting to the hospital.
Speaking with the nanny who claimed to have hailed from one of the states in
the eastern part of the country and did not want her name in the print said:
inside the car, because the dog was to be treated at the veterinary, suddenly I
saw the dog moving closer to the baby and I shouted for help when the dog
opened its teeth and I ran out of the car to call madam but she did not come on
time”.
baby before she took in for the baby that was delivered and named Chinonso.In a swift reaction, the husband of the woman amidst tears, and did not want
his name on the print said:
work will take her out of my house, I have warned her about the dog when I
notice that the dog had been behaving funny. She still kept carrying the dog
claiming that she was going to give treatment to the dog. This is how the devil
had ruined her”.