FCT Police arrest woman for killing own newborn baby boy with razor blade

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command has arrested a 27-year-old woman, Precious Yohanna, for allegedly sidesplitting her newborn babe with a razor leaf successful Abuja.

The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, disclosed this successful a connection issued connected Wednesday.

Adeh said the bid received a distress telephone connected October 4, 2026, astir the find of an abandoned babe successful a bush astir the Jabi country of the FCT.

She explained that operatives of the Jabi Police Division were instantly deployed to the scene, wherever they recovered the lifeless assemblage of a antheral babe with heavy wounds connected the pharynx and abdomen.

According to her, the babe was rushed to a adjacent hospital, wherever aesculapian unit confirmed him dead.

Adeh said pursuing the recovery, the Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, CP Ahmed Muhammed Sanusi, ordered a manhunt for the idiosyncratic liable for the killing.

She said with the assistance of members of the community, constabulary operatives traced and arrested Yohanna, a autochthonal of Riyam successful Sanga Local Government Area of K...