Police in Lagos State have arrested a mother for attempting to kill her sick baby by administering a poisonous insecticide known as Sniper.
The incident was reported by the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, after the mother brought her 19-month-old daughter to the hospital for treatment.
The mother confessed to a doctor at the hospital that she gave the child Sniper to drink when her convulsions did not stop.
“The mother said she gave the liquid to her child so she could rest from her excessive convulsions," said Benjamin Hundeyin, a Superintendent of Police and spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command. Detectives were dispatched to the hospital, where they found the baby receiving treatment. The mother has been taken in for investigation after the child received treatment.
