Moses Otimba, 47, of Ogbogoro community in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State has confessed to killing a five-day-old baby he fathered with the sister of his pregnant wife.
Otimba told the police during interrogation that he and his wife’s teenage sister, identified simply as Joy, agreed to kill the baby and bury it in a shallow grave by a river in order to hide its paternity from his wife.
Joy, 18, who lived with her sister and Otimba refused to disclose the father of her unborn child while she was pregnant.
According to the state’s Commissioner of Police, Asuquo Amba, the suspects were arrested after Joy confessed to the alleged murder three months later.
“Mr. Moses Otimba, male, 47, impregnated one Joy Matthew, 18, a younger sister to his wife, Glory. The pregnant Joy was delivered of the baby by a traditional birth attendant at Amarata, Yenagoa on May 8, 2017.
“On May 13, 2017, Moses, Joy and the baby left the birth attendant and went across the Swali Bridge where Moses took the baby from his mother, went down the shore, suffocated the baby and buried the body in a shallow grave,” Amba said.
He said Joy’s mother alerted the police and the suspects were arrested.
“The police visited the scene of the incident. By the time they got to the scene, the current of the river had washed away the child’s body.
When asked if what the police said was true, Otimba said it was, adding that he killed the baby because he was scared of breaking the news to his wife and mother -in-law.
“I killed the baby boy because I was afraid. I did not really know how to face my wife and my mother-in-law. I am really sorry.
“I took the baby to the bush in my community and closed his nose until he died. When I was carrying out the act, I was weeping and crying but I had no choice.
“The mother of the baby agreed that we should kill him. I told Joy that I did not know how to tell my wife about the development.”
According to Punch, the duo were arrested after Joy disclosed the incident to her own mother who then told the police.
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