Mother Arrested in Lagos for Attempting to Murder Epileptic One-Year-Old Baby

The police in Lagos state have apprehended a mother, identified as Rukayat, for allegedly attempting to poison her epileptic child.

Sources reveal that Rukayat took her one-year-seven-month-old child, Wuraola, to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, complaining that the child wasn’t feeling well.

During the treatment process, Rukayat confessed to the doctor that on March 3, she had given her child an insecticide to drink, hoping she would die immediately.
Rukayat claimed she had tried various methods to stop her child’s epilepsy, all to no avail, leading her to resort to poisoning.
Doctors treated the child while the mother was promptly handed over to the police for further investigation and prosecution.