Woman arrested for allegedly stealing baby at RCCG camp

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old girl, Anuoluwapo Joshua, for allegedly stealing a three-year-old baby at the Redemption Camp, on Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

The victim, Patience Francis was discovered missing when her mother came back from the new auditorium where she had gone to pack her children’s garments.

According to Police report, the suspect stole the child since july 2017 throughout the monthly holy ghost congress, however was apprehended on 29th December, 2017 at the Youth Centre within the camp after a programme.

In a statement Issued by the Police PR Officer (PPRO) within the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the mother of the kid according that the kid was taken by AN unknown person once she visited pack her children’s garments within the new area wherever she had gone for prayers together with her husband.

Oyeyemi, said, “The suspect ran out of luck on the twenty ninth December once the kid was hawk-eyed within the Youth Centre at Redemption Camp throughout the children’s finish of the year party unionised by the ransomed Christian Church of God.
“On receiving the knowledge, the Divisional lawman, Redemption Camp division, Olaiya Martins, LED detectives to the centre wherever they waited till the top of the programme once the suspect came bent on choose the kid and he or she was promptly inactive.”
The Force voice aforesaid the suspect had confessed to the crime, adding that the kid has been united together with her oldsters.



He said, “She admitted that she lured the kid out of her parents’ sight and took her to Ofada space, wherever she has been taking care of the kid since then.

“Investigation additional discovered that the suspect had allegedly got pregnant for someone in port however traveled to the north, wherever she claimed she has been delivered of a female offspring.

“But once she came back from the North, she didn't come back with the baby. This created the person WHO allegedly fertilized her to mount pressure on her to bring his kid for him to ascertain.

“She later knowing her relatives that she was traveling to Nasarawa State to bring the kid however visited Redemption Camp wherever she stayed for a few days before succeeding in stealing the kid, that she conferred to her relations as her girl.”

Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Abeokuta, for additional investigation and prosecution.