Mother, daughter arrested for dumping dead infant in dustbin(Photo)

A 25-year-old woman, Qamariya Ismail, and her 45-year-old mother, Hassana Sabi’u, are currently being grilled by police detectives in Katsina, Katsina State in connection with the discovery of the corpse of a day-old baby in a dustbin in on Monday.

The spokesman for the Katsina Police Command, DSP Gambo Isah, said Ismail, who resides at Sabuwar Kasuwa Quarters in Katsina, had owned up to being the mother of the dead infant.


According to Isah, investigation by the police revealed that Ismail was assisted by her mother, Sabi’u, to dump the infant’s corpse in a dustbin,Punch reports.