My husband smashed our baby to death — teenage mother
A 17-year-old mother, Promise Okon, has revealed how her husband, Benedict Anieze, smashed their four weeks old baby to death at their residence in the Idimu area of Lagos. It was learned that the couple had an altercation that degenerated when he angrily threw his baby on the floor, smashing her head in the process. According to Promise Okon, “the incident happened at our apartment at 5 Pipeline Road, Idimu when we were having a misunderstanding, my husband threw our one-month-old baby girl on the floor. “She died instantly and he immediately set our apartment on fire. It took the intervention of neighbours to put out the fire.” Vanguard gathered that after smashing the baby to death, the suspect proceeded to set the house on fire with his weeping wife and the dead child inside the apartment. But for the timely response of their neighbours, who rescued Okon and put out the fire, she would have been burnt to death as she was yet to fully recover from the cesarean section she had a...