The Police in Rivers State have arrested one Mrs. Abigail Brown, a woman who allegedly kidnapped her two children and demanded ransom from her husband.
The Punch reports that
the woman, in conjunction with her husband’s former driver, simply identified
as ThankGod had connived and kidnapped her two children, aged two and 10
respectively; afterwards, they called the husband to pay a ransom to secure the
children’s release.
After successfully
abducting her two children, the suspect hid them in her sister’s place.
Luck, however, ran out
on her at the point of collecting the ransom.
Although Brown
initially denied the allegation against her, she later said the act was not
intentional, adding that it was frustration that made her to commit the crime.
She said she had no
means of survival.
The suspect claimed
that her husband had abandoned her and the two children to suffer and that the
kidnap was the only means of making some money from her husband.
In her confession, she
said, “I did it because of frustration because my husband abandoned me and my
children. Since he left us and went away, I have been suffering with my
children, and I know that he has money.
“I only did it to make
him bring money for me to take care of the children we had together.
“I demanded N6m as
ransom to secure the release of the two children,” she added.
On his part, her
accomplice, ThankGod, accepted taking part in the act after his former boss’
wife contacted him.
He said, “She called
me to help her. She told me to take the two children to her sister’s place.
That is how I got involved. She used me to act as the kidnapper of the two
children before we were arrested.
“She lured me into
it,” ThankGod added.
Confirming the
incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Muhammad, said
the suspects were in their custody.
He added that the
children were safe and that they recovered the said amount in the course of
carrying out the arrest.
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