Dog Eats Up 4-Month-Old Baby In Delta State

Friday, August 21, 2015 will forever be on the sad note of 37-year-old house wife, Maureen Akowe, who lost her four-month-old baby to her dog.

Leadership reports that Akowe had driven to a popular supermarket along Okpanam Road, Asaba to do some shopping with her 4-month-old baby and the dog inside her car. The nursing mother however left the baby, a nanny and the dog inside the car with the windows of the car down to allow cross ventilation while she goes into the supermarket.

However, while the nursing mother was at it, the dog allegedly made straight for the little baby to eat her up while the nanny screamed for help but all to no avail. The nany’s shout got the attention of two security personnel at the supermarket but they came rather late as the dog had severally bitten the baby, identified Chinonso, with blood all over.  Reports made it known that the dog had gone wild and was barking menacingly to scare onlookers by the time the baby’s mother got wind of the development and rushed to the scene.

When the baby was taken to a nearby hospital along Nnebisi Road, the baby, which is the first child of the woman, died before getting to the hospital. The nanny said:

“Madam carry the dog and baby and asked us to stay inside the car, because the dog was to be treated at the veterinary, suddenly I saw the dog moving closer to the baby and I shouted for help when the dog opened its teeth and I ran out of the car to call madam but she did not come on time”.

Family sources said that the house wife had been married for 3 years without a baby before she took in for the baby that was delivered and named Chinonso.

In a swift reaction, the husband of the woman amidst tears, and did not want his name on the print said:

“my wife said it is the devil’s work and the devil’s work will take her out of my house, I have warned her about the dog when I notice that the dog had been behaving funny. She still kept carrying the dog claiming that she was going to give treatment to the dog. This is how the devil had ruined her”.