A woman kills her stepson with insecticide

A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for killing her co-wife’s four-day-old baby with an insecticide at Bantu Village in the Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria, according to reports.

“The suspect entered the co-wife’s room with liquid insecticide and applied it to the baby’s unhealed umbilical cord,” reports said.

The baby was born on August 15, 2023, but was killed by the suspect on August 19, 2023, before his naming.

Operatives attached to the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested the suspect, female of Bantu village, Ningi Local Government Area of the state for culpable homicide, reports said.

“The suspect would be prosecuted after the investigation,” according to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil.