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Newborn Dumped In Akwanga Bush Found Alive, Mother COE Final-Year Student Arrested
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A newborn baby dumped by her mother in the popular A. A. Koto area of Akwanga town, Nasarawa State, has been found alive by residents and handed over to the police.
The newborn, a baby girl, was found on Wednesday in a bush along Hope Academy Primary School, Akwanga, a resident of the area confirmed to n-Mirror.
She was wrapped in a cloth and dumped in the bush by her mother, a final-year NCE student of the College of Education, Akwanga.
The mother has since been arrested by the police and taken into custody with the help of her friends and schoolmates.
Reacting, residents who expressed shock over the incident decried the alarming cases of dumping newborn babies amidst the harsh economic realities in the country.
