A woman in Delta State last Friday lost her only child to her pet dog who hauled the four month old to death.
Tragedy struck on Friday, August 21, in Asaba, Delta State, when a
37-year-old house wife, identified as Maureen Akowe, lost her
four-month-old baby to her dog
According to reports, the four- month-old baby was driven in the
mother’s car alongside the dog to a popular supermarket along Okpanam
Road, Asaba, where the house wife had gone for shopping for the baby’s
upkeep.
Report says the unsuspecting nursing mother left the baby, a nanny
and the dog inside the car and wound down the windows to allow
ventilation into the car before moving into the supermarket.
LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered from witnesses that while she was busy
shopping, the dog allegedly made straight for the little baby to eat her
up while the nanny screamed for help but all to no avail.
The shouts by the nanny attracted two security personnel at the
supermarket to the car but by which time the baby, identified as
Chinonso, had been bitten severally on the stomach by the dog, leaving
the baby in a pool of blood.
The dog had gone wild and was barking menacingly to scare onlookers
by the time the baby’s mother got wind of the development and rushed to
the scene.
The baby was taken to a nearby hospital along Nnebisi Road, but it
was too late by the time they got to the hospital the baby, the woman’s
first child, had already died.
Speaking the nanny said “Madam carry the dog and baby and asked
us to stay inside the car, because the dog was to be treated at the
veterinary, suddenly I saw the dog moving closer to the baby and I
shouted for help when the dog opened its teeth and I ran out of the car
to call madam but she did not come on time”.
Family sources said that the house wife had been married for 3
years without a baby before she took in for the baby that was delivered
and named Chinonso.
In a swift reaction, the husband of the woman amidst tears, “my
wife said it is the devil’s work and the devil’s work will take her out
of my house, I have warned her about the dog when I noticed that the
dog had been behaving funny. She still kept carrying the dog claiming
that she was going to give treatment to the dog. This is how the devil
has ruined her”.