Adeleye Kunle Reports
A 22-year-old suspected female kidnapper has revealed how she has been abducting toddlers in Ondo State communities for the past two years.
Adeola Omoniyi, the suspect, revealed that she has been delivering kidnapped children to her father, Ilesanmi Omoniyi, who pays her N30,000 for each operation.
According to the suspected kidnapper, who was paraded at the police headquarters alongside her father, she was apprehended while on her third mission in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area, Ondo State.
“I’m a kidnapper,” she admitted, explaining how she carried out the crime. I kidnap small children and deliver them to my father at his home in Igbotako. With the first two, I was successful.
See the full confession below;
“After delivering the kids to my father, he used to give me N30,000 for each operation. I do use the money to take care of myself. I don’t know what he normally use the children for. All I do is just to take them to him.
“He was the one that told me to always bring the children to him. I picked the first child from Ilutitun and the from Ilowo.
“It was when I was taking the child away that the mother raised alarm.
People gathered to beat me and I was taken to the police station before I was moved to Akure.
“I have been doing the business for about two years. The first one was in 2021 and the second one this year. I always ask the children when they are alone that where are they going and I hold their hand and they will follow me.”
However, the father of the suspected criminal who said that her daughter lied against him, #tated that she had been battling mental issue.
“My daughter used to stay in Lagos. She used about two years in Lagos. She got sick and they brought her to me in Igbotako. She was stacked naked when they brought her to me.
“I later took her to a church where the pastor said I should pay N80,000. I sold my cassava and I paid the pastor. He later told me that she is better but few days after he called again that he could not find her as she had left the church.
“I’m the one that she used to bring the kids to. I have never given her N30,000. It was six months after she left the church that we have been looking for her that I heard that she went to steal a child.”
