24-year-old Mariam Musa , has been arrested in Ede, Osun State, for reportedly poisoning her three-year-old stepson, Rokeeb Musa, because her husband took care of his mother more, Njenje Media News reports.
The pregnant Mariam, who is a tailor and resident in Ede, Osun State, allegedly committed the act on December 26, 2020.
Njenje Media News reports that the five-months-old pregnant woman confessed while being paraded by the Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Wale Olokode, on Tuesday at the State Command, Osogbo.
In her defense, she accused the husband of showing more love and favour to the second wife because she had a male child while she (first wife) is yet to have a male.
Mariam claimed the three-year-old boy, Rokeeb, left his mother and came to her room on the day she committed the act, adding that she put insecticide in the victim’s mouth, which killed him.
She added that after the act, she felt remorseful and confessed to her husband.
In her words;
“Greed and jealousy made me to kill the son of my husband’s second wife. She had a male child and I was not happy that our husband was showing her more care,”
