Newborn rescued from pit toilet after three days in Anambra

<p>A newborn has been rescued from a pit toilet in Otuocha, Anambra East Local Government Area of the State three days after birth.</p>, <p>According to a report posted on the Facebook page of Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, the incident happened on Sunday.</p>, <p>The mother of the male child, Nwaedoka Chidinma, a 20-year-old girl from Izzi, Ebonyi State, was said to have deliberately carried out the act.</p>, <p>Esther Omesi, a farmer and friend to Chidinma, alerted relevant authorities about the incident.</p>, <p>Omesi said she was staying at Chidinma’s place at the time it happened.</p>, <p>According to her, Chidinma started acting suspiciously on Sunday after she had notified her (Omesi) that she was having stomach upset and then went to the pit to ease herself.</p>, <p>She narrated that Chidimma took time and when she came out, there was dripping of blood which made her call a nurse that inspected her and revealed that the baby was gone.</p>, <p>Omesi said that she thought that Chidinma had a stillbirth, which is why she encouraged her to travel home to her parents and notify them of the development.</p>, <p>Revealing further on how it happened, Omesi said that they heard a baby’s cry on Tuesday morning and quickly used a ladder to rescue the newborn.</p>, <p>Reacting to the incident, the Honourable Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Ify Obinabo, was shocked when both the mother and child were brought to her office.</p>, <p>Turning to Chidinma, she said: “Why would you, after you have passed through pregnancy, given birth and decided to put the baby in the toilet? Why? Since Sunday? Why are you this wicked?”</p>, <p>The commissioner quickly directed that the newborn should be taken to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital, Amaku, in Awka for treatment and later called for the arrest of the culprit.</p>, <p>Obinabo decried the rate at which young girls now commit crime and stated that the young mother won’t go unpunished.</p>, <p>She further noted that the Governor of Anam