An 8-month-old baby boy was stabbed by his reportedly mentally-sick
mother and brought into the ward for surgery with the knife still stuck
in the boy’s abdomen, at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Federal
Teaching Hospital (FETHA), Abakaliki, in Ebonyi State.
Though there full details of the incident as the suspect, who was said
to be a wife of a serving police Sergeant, was said to have been taken
to hospital for treatment, it was gathered that the incident happened at
the police barracks, Abakaliki.
It was gathered that the woman who allegedly has periodic major mental
disorder pierced her baby’s stomach with kitchen knife and left the
knife stuck in the baby’s stomach when somebody saw it and raised the
alarm that attracted neigbours.
An eyewitness and a medical practitioner at the Federal Teaching
Hospital, who pleaded anonymity, said the baby was brought into the
emergency ward with the knife still stuck in his stomach while he had
lost so much blood.
In his own reaction, one Omeri Francis Nwachi, on his facebook page wrote:
“A woman stabbed this baby, you can’t imagine that it was true and I actually snapped it myself.
The baby is still alive and was being prepared for surgical procedure. Please pray for the survival of this baby”.
Chief Medical Director of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Dr. Emeka Ogar,
said the baby had been operated upon and the surgery was successful and
expressed shock at the incident.
