A man who was caught stealing by his seven-month-old pregnant neighbour did the most unthinkable thing by using a kitchen knife to
stab the woman in the stomach, killing the unborn baby in the process.
The incident which happened in the Mushin area of Lagos State, almost left the woman, Onyinyechi Chinaka, a mother of two, almost death but for the timely intervention of other neighbours who rushed her to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, where she is battling for her life after losing her baby in the most cruel way.
According to reports, Chinaka had allegedly caught the man who is a co-tenant at their residence at 11, Anjorin Street, Mushin, stealing money from her purse and not wanting her to expose him, the suspect picked up a knife and
stabbed her severally on the stomach, neck and arm, and left her to bleed to death. But she survived the attack though she lost the pregnancy she was carrying.
Narrating how the incident happened from her hospital bed, Chinaka said:
“I was at home that fateful day when my children came to me in the kitchen where I was cooking to say electricity had been restored, and that I should come to the living room to play a cartoon video, called Power Ranger, for them.
I left what I was doing and went to operate the television for them. But to my astonishment, I saw the neighbour in my room. He was going through my purse to steal money. I caught him red handed. He was shocked. I said, ‘So, you are the one stealing all the money that has been missing in this compound’. I was shocked because I trusted him and we had never quarreled before.