A heartless mother has abandoned her newborn baby in a big gutter (drainage) in Calabar, Cross River State.
We learned that the newborn was found lifeless on Monday inside a big gutter at Ekpo Abasi Junction by Umo Edem Street, close to the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS), formerly Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH).
The incident left residents of the area in shock as the lifeless newborn was left at the mercy of the rains.
According to people in the area, the baby was found dead while wrapped in its placenta and placed in a black polythene bag.
One of the eyewitnesses told this medium that, “It was a horrific sight,” adding “The baby was still in a pool of blood, and it was clear that it had been thrown away like trash.”
“This is a tragic and disturbing incident,” a team of Dagon Squad that arrived at the scene. To make more enquiries about the event to see if they can find the mother but it was too late.
“I was on my way to get something at a nearby shop when I saw the baby’s body in the gutter,” said Mrs Effiom, a resident of Ekpo Abasi. “I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was a newborn baby, probably not more than a day old.”
“This is a wake-up call for all of us. “We need to come together as a community to support each other and ensure that no mother feels like they have no option but to abandon their child.”
last year January same story was heard in ikot ansa and ekorinim, child abandonment has become a regular activity in Calabar that women get pregnant go through pregnancy, have the child and can’t care for the child that they have to watch the child die, such a painful event but it’s true that most women are angry having a child for a man who rejects the child, leaving them to care for the child alone in depression and anger the abandon Thea children in bins and gutters since they can’t sale it.
Mr Akaninyene Okon a business man in the area suspects a young lady who was pregnant and wasn’t cared for, according to Akan he says the young lady always ask for support from anyone who comes her way so to eat and afford basic needs but at a time he hasn’t seen the lady around, he feels the baby belongs to her considering the fact that she has not been seen in the area which she was indoors and the baby was found close to the lady’s resident in ekpo Abasi, Calabar of Cross River State.
report has it that similar incidents have been seen across the metropolis, with several cases involving young mothers, and refuse bins and gutters being their discharge points.
