“Things are hard. My husband has no job. He had an
accident three months ago he is still in the hospital
ago and the situation became worse for us. We don’t
see food to eat. We were dying of starvation"
I delivered at home and threw the baby in the
toilet because I don’t know how we are going to
take care of it. I didn’t tell my husband,” she
narrated amidst sobs.
The newborn whose cry attracted neighbours, was
rescued alive nearly 12 hours later before being
rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa University
Teaching Hospital for medical attention.
A source claimed that Juliana seemed to be
depressed due to hardship. “She was a hardworking
mother who fried bean-cake in the neighborhood but
for some time now, during her pregnancy, she had not
been coming out.
"May be the recession took its toll on her,” the source
said.A mother of six from Guru village in outskirt of
Bauchi, Bauchi State has confessed that she
threw her one day old infant into the soak -away
shortly after delivering her at home because of
hardship.
Juliana James, an indigene of Shendan LGA of
Plateau State, wept profusely as she spoke with
journalists at the Police Command Headquarters
in Bauchi, saying she loved her child.
The housewife who lives with her husband James
and her six children-five girls and a boy in a one
room apartment – claimed that things were so
rough for her family that she decided that the
way out was to sacrifice the newborn.
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