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‘How female pastor stole my baby’

Detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, are investigating a female pastor, Esther (surname withheld), over alleged stealing of four kids. The pastor, the founder and general overseer of a church (name withheld) located at Ijaiye- Ojokoro area of Lagos, was said to have become a guest of the police, after a lady, Christiana Ebele (24), claimed Esther stole her baby boy.

The cleric already has three kids of her own, but due to the presently allegation of stealing a member’s baby, the police are now investigating whether she’s the biological mother of the kids. Ebele, an unmarried mother of two, said she thought Esther was an angel after she welcomed her into her home and church. According to her, Esther promised to set up a business for her, so that she could be empowered and be able to care for the baby. Ebele said Esther was nice to her until she was delivered of the baby boy.

She said: “After I gave birth, Esther changed towards me. On the day I went into labour, she refused to take me to the hospital. She brought a nurse to assist me to deliver. On that day, there was a heavy rainfall. Pastor Esther took the baby from me immediately I delivered.

She warned me not to touch him. She also told me not to breastfeed him. When the baby was crying, I attempted to feed him, Esther got angry, slapped and chased me out of the house. She chased me inside the rain.” Esther was arrested by policemen attached to the Alakuko Police Station after she went to the station on March 18, to report a case of child abandonment in her church. The matter, however, took a turn when police learnt that Esther allegedly stole the baby from a member of her congregation.

Apparently, Esther didn’t expect the police to pursue the case with tenacity. But the police doggedly pursued the case until they traced Ebele to where she had gone to lick her wounds. Ebele said: “My boyfriend abandoned me when I told him I was pregnant. My elder sister took me to her church where I met Pastor Esther.

My sister told her that we were poor and wouldn’t be able to care for the baby. I was eight months pregnant then. She agreed to help me. “Pastor Esther promised she would give me money to start a business and cater for the child after I delivered. But minutes after I delivered, she changed.

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When she chased me into the rain, I left and went to look for my sister who took me to the church.” She decided to leave everything to God. She heard that Esther named the baby Temple and gave him her own surname. Esther also went to the health centre, where she registered the birth of the baby and claimed she was his mother.

Asked if she sold the baby to Esther, Ebele said: “I didn’t sell my baby. I only approached her for help. She showed me love when I was pregnant but after I gave birth; she took the baby from me and threw me out in the rain. She said she could no longer feed me.”

Investigation revealed that Esther registered the baby at the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, where the child was immunised. Fielding questions from detectives, Esther insisted that she did not steal baby, but was taking care of him after his mother abandoned him in her church and fled.

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