Teenage Nanny, 14 years old has been arrested for strangling her mistress’ six-month-old baby in Lagos.
According to Police, on the 6th of February 2022, a 14-year-old female nanny by the name of Chiamaka Odo strangled her mistress’ son, Jayden Osokolo, a baby who was kept in her custody, to death.
Statement made available to the Police by Chiamaka, indicated that she did it because she is a member of a witchcraft group and she is now claiming that they, not her, were responsible for killing young Jayden. She said:
My name is Odo Chiamaka. I was brought to Lagos from Anambra but I was a member of a witchcraft group while in our village. There is one of my friends called Ameri. She gave me biscuits and sweets and in the night, I found myself in one place. They welcomed me. When I was coming to Lagos, they said I should bring blood but I said no. We did meeting and I told them to send me to do another thing and they asked me what I want. I told them I don’t want to shed any blood but I can do any other thing.
They asked me what I was going to do in Lagos and I told them nanny work. So, on the night of March 5, they asked me to bring the baby I was looking after. I said I won’t bring the baby and they said they will strangle me if I don’t bring the baby. I refused to bring the baby and I begged them but they didn’t agree. So, they gave me a baby bath and said I should call the baby four times. I called the baby’s name four times and blood filled the bath.
They come in my dream when I am sleeping. I find myself in Ogoloma in Agulu, Anambra State. I am the last in the group. I do not do anything and I don’t eat anything. I came to the house on January 7. It was my uncle that brought me and they said they will pay N15, 000 but they didn’t pay. I wanted to leave the cult but I do not know how to. If I want to go to church on Sunday, I won’t be able to walk again. They will make me tired until church dismisses.
Police investigation indicated that the baby was strangled to death but according to her, all she did was call the baby’s name and then she saw blood inside the bath.
