The operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), has arrested woman, identified as Sukyama Irmiya, who stole a 14-year-old twin baby at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) in Bauchi state.

The 30-year-old suspect, from Kanam LGA of Plateau State, reportedly took the baby home, claiming she has given birth, the baby already spent six days with her before she was arrested on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.

According to her, she indulged in the act because of frustration from mockery of childlessness by her mate and family members of her husband.

Speaking with newsmen, the suspect said: “I came to Bauchi to see a doctor and from there I went to the Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) to see a doctor but I later changed my mind because of the condition I found myself in. I thought that even if I met the doctor, it is all about child bearing and I don’t have a husband because I have been chased out of my marriage, so there’s no hope of child bearing. I stole the child because I want it, I want to take care of it as my own child, that was the reason I went for a newly-born baby.

“I had tried adopting one but I couldn’t get one because there was no infant child available at the orphanage, I did not do it with any ulterior motives, I just want a baby so that I too will be called a mother. I entered the ward and met the woman, I engaged her in friendly conversations and she loosened up with me. I asked her if she had twins and she answered yes, I then asked if I could take him to see how he looks, and she allowed me to do that. Immediately I took the baby, my heart told me to act as the mother and go. I then told her that I was coming and I just left the hospital and went away with the baby. I followed the main entrance to the main road and boarded a Keke and went to the village called Za’a in Kanam LGA.”