Lady Steals Baby At A Wedding Reception In Imo

The teenage girl was said to have been instructed to look over the baby while the mother was dressing up, hours later the baby and the young girl were gone. New Telegraph reports: The incident took place during the wedding of one Mr Chinonso Cletus Oriaku at his in-law’s home where he also performed the traditional marriage. The boy’s mother who is the wife of the groom’s elder brother, Mrs Peace Oriaku, said she had given the baby to her younger sister when she wanted to go in and dress to join others at the ceremony. According to her, she did not ask for him after dressing because he was not crying. She added that when her sister wanted to attend to some issues, she handed the baby, Prince Oriaku, over to an unknown but friendly young girl of about 17 years, who had been around the family house since morning, helping out in the organisation of things for the ceremony. She said that when she wanted to breastfeed the baby and requested for him around 5.30p.m., her sister discovered that the girl and the baby were nowhere to be found. Efforts of the father, Mr Evans Oriaku and youths in the village to recover the baby were fruitless. About a month ago, one-year-old baby girl, Febechukwu Egwuchukwu, was stolen from a church vigil at Nnempi community in Oru West Local Government Area of the state. Lukily, however, she was recovered when another woman was dedicating the baby at St. Gregory’s Catholic Church, Amaigbo in Nwangele council. Also in February, 16-month-old Emmanuel Onyekachi Alamanjo was reportedly abducted from Saint Mary’s Catholic Cathedral Parish, Okigwe. The trend shows that hoodlums have again started kidnapping, snatching and stealing toddlers from churches in the state. There have also been cases of hoodlums snatching babies from their mothers at gunpoint in the state in the last three months.