Midwife Allegedly Steals New Born Baby, Replaces With Dead One

A midwife has been arrested for allegedly stealing a newborn baby and replacing with a dead one in Ifo, Ogun State.
The story was shared by Instagrammer, Adeyemi Abolore. According to her, the drama started when the unnamed midwife who runs her clinic in Ifo, Ogun State, supervised the delivery of a local and quickly sent the patient’s relative home to get new clothes for the new mother. Just as the relative left, the midwife disappeared.

The newborn could not be found when the villagers stormed the facility to search for it, and the midwife could not be reached via telephone until 5 hours later . She eventually turned up the following day with a dead baby which she claimed was the newborn.

From the clip shared on Instagram, the midwife continues to insist that the dead baby is the child that was birthed by the patient, while her interrogators insist that the dead baby was taken from a mortuary.

This development has sparked major outrage on social media.

“People are wicked. …..do they even stop to think of the trauma the mother will go tru or the journey she went tru 9 months + labour,” said an Instagrammer @hamdalah1.

The state’s police had yet to make official statement as at press time.

Watch the clip:

My family friend delivered her baby by around 5pm d mother in law ws asked to go home to get cloths. Wen she returned with her son the doctor/midwife had left d hospital immediately after her delivery ask informed them by d two nurses on ground. The nurses wouldn't account for d whereabout of d newly born. The husband alarm d community chairman and elders with the youth and they went to ifo police, visited d place of delivery and only found d placeta and only one of d room ws locked. The midwife ws spoken with around 10pm after several calls and she admitted d baby ws fyn and alive. The search team left d place around 11.30pm after waiting for d midwife who didn't show up. The next morning 28th they went back to d police station that ws wen i ws contacted. Then d woman ws around there. We all went back to d hospital and in one of d rooms already searched, a dead baby ws found which she claimed ve been in d building all thru 27th. She said d baby ws dead at birth. The locked room ws opened and money of different denominations wr found she also has d building construction going on behind d clinic. The elders within her community claimed she came back to d clinic by 1am and showed them d dead baby. D DCO ifo said while he and his team searched d clinic no baby ws found. D dead body ve been taken to mortuary for autopsy, the wicked must not go unpunished @instablog9ja, @chinnysblog

A post shared by Adeyemi Abolore (@abolorelore_S3xymama_beautybar) on May 30, 2017 at 7:52am PDT