{"id":67151,"date":"2025-06-02T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67151"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:42:57","slug":"woman-arrested-for-stealing-two-months-old-boy-in-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/02\/woman-arrested-for-stealing-two-months-old-boy-in-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested for stealing two months old boy in Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 49-year-old woman, Joy Temitope, for allegedly stealing a two-month-old baby in Koko, Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known in a statement shared by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Edafe, the suspect lured and deceived a 20-year-old mother before allegedly drugging her and fleeing with her infant son.<\/p>\n<p>He added that acting on intelligence-driven policing, the suspect was tracked down and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read, \u201cThe suspect, Mrs Joy Temitope, aged 49 yers lured and deceived a 20-year-old girl who had a two-month-old baby. She drugged the girl and stole her baby somewhere in Koko, Delta.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was arrested three months later and the baby boy who is now five months old rescued and reunited with his mother.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 49-year-old woman, Joy Temitope, for allegedly stealing a two-month-old baby in Koko, Delta State. This was made known in a statement shared by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, on Monday. According to Edafe, the suspect lured and deceived a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,1724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-insecurity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67153,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67151\/revisions\/67153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}