Mother In Trouble For Drowning Baby Over University Admission

LUCKY LAWAL

A 22-year old lady, Adisa Funmilola, has been arrested for drowning her baby inside a bucket of water.

The suspect, who lives in the same building with her elder sister, confessed to have drowned her one-year and six months old baby inside a bucket of water in her apartment in Gowon Estate area of Lagos.
Surprisingly, the suspect, Funmilola, confessed to have intentionally committed the crime. She actually confessed without feeling any remorse.
According to the suspect, who boldly admitted to have killed her baby, she said, “I did so because she deprived me of the opportunity to realise my dream of becoming a lawyer”.
During interrogation, she said, “I drowned my baby inside a bucket filled with water on Monday. Thereafter, I reported myself at the Gowon Estate Division. The Police did not come immediately but when they did, they found the dead baby inside the bucket”.
“I was impregnated by a boy who attended same JAMB lessons with me. But he rejected the pregnancy, I wanted to abort the pregnancy but my father said no.”
“I passed my JAMB exams and was offered admission to study Law at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, but I couldn’t continue with the admission because of the baby.” 
“I wanted to take her to the orphanage home at first when it became difficult to take care of her. I live with my sister, who had no job and I am also not working. I felt there was no use keeping her since I could not take care of her.”
“I killed her because I was frustrated but most importantly because she stood in the way of my actualising the dream of becoming a lawyer” she said.
From Gowon Estate Division, Funmilayo was taken to the  Lagos State Police Command Headquarters in Ikeja, from where the Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, directed that she should be transfered to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence  Department, SCIID, Yaba. 
Her elder sister, who did not want her name mentioned, said she was too shocked to believe that her younger sister could commit such act. She said, “I suspect she is gradually developing mental problem. Our mother had same mental problem before she died. We live in the same apartment but have our separate bedrooms. I didn’t know when she drowned the baby until the Police arrived”.
The suspect will face the consequence of her action after a medical check has been conducted on her to check her mental health, said a Police source.