A 19-year-old resident of Adamawa State, Aliyu Yaro, has been accused of strangling his three-day-old son, reportedly due to financial hardship.
According to authorities, Yaro allegedly took the infant from his girlfriend, identified only as Safiya, murdered the child, and buried him in a shallow grave at an uncompleted building site.
The tragic incident occurred on November 7, 2024, in Kwacham, within the Mubi North Local Government Area, as confirmed by the baby’s mother.
Reports indicate that Safiya had been pressuring Yaro to support her and their newborn. Facing mounting financial expectations, he allegedly chose to end his child’s life to avoid family obligations.
Safiya recounted the night of the tragedy: “It’s true; he’s not been providing for me and my baby since I delivered three days before the incident. I’ve complained and threatened to report him to the authorities.
“So he came to my house on the ill-fated night around 8:30; I left him in my room with the baby to buy water at a nearby store. Surprisingly when I returned, he was gone with the baby. I reported the incident to the police, who swiftly got him arrested the following day; unfortunately, he had already killed the baby,” Safiya explained.
Adamawa State Police Command spokesperson, SP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the arrest, stating, “The couple has been taken into custody.”
Nguroje elaborated, “The Adamawa State Police Command has on the 8th of November, 2024 apprehended a 19-year-old Aliyu Yaro for allegedly killing his 3-day-old baby boy.
“The suspect, Aliyu, who hails from Kwacham ward in Mubi North local Government, was accused by Safiya, his girlfriend, of murdering the victim three days after she gave birth to him.
“During interrogations, he confessed to the heinous crime and took the police to the burial site, where the remains were exhumed.
“He narrated that he had impregnated the mother of the deceased, who is now the complainant, and after delivery, she kept calling him to take responsibility for the baby.
“He said that he went to his girlfriend’s house at night, took the infant after sending the mother on an errand, and then buried the child around 9:00 pm in the Girpata area in Mubi,” Nguroje stated.
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