Solomon Odeniyi The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a woman, Khadija Ali, for allegedly abandoning her newborn baby. Ali was reported to have dumped the baby along a bush path near Crush Rock, behind the uncompleted Red Bricks Market in Mpape, Abuja. The abandoned baby A statement released on Sunday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, revealed that the baby, believed to be just a day old, was discovered at about 10am on January 3, 2025 after police operatives from the Mpape Division’s Juvenile and Women Care Section responded to a distress call.
Adeh stated that the infant, wrapped in a cloth, was rescued and taken to the Mpape Primary Health Care Centre for medical evaluation. She added that, following an examination, medical personnel confirmed the child was in stable condition. The statement partly read, “On 3 January 2025, at about 10:00 a.
m., police operatives from Mpape Division’s Juvenile and Women Care Section responded to a distress call and found the baby wrapped in a cloth. The child was promptly rescued and taken to Mpape Primary Health Care Centre, where medical evaluation confirmed the baby is in stable condition.
” Adeh disclosed that acting on a tip-off from concerned residents, police apprehended Khadija Ali, who confessed to abandoning her baby. “Following a tip-off from the community, the baby’s mother, Khadija Ali, was arrested. During interrogation, she confessed to abandoning the baby, citing h.
