Mother blames it on the devil, Dog eats up 4 month old baby in Delta State, Nigeria.

 Maureen Akowe, lost her 4 month old baby to her dog. It was gathered that the baby and the nanny was driven in the mother’s car alongside with the dog to a popular supermarket along Okpanam Road, Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria. The baby's mother left the baby, the nanny and the dog inside the car and went for shopping at the supermarket for the baby’s upkeep.

While she was busy shopping, the dog allegedly made straight for the little baby to eat her up while the nanny screamed for help but all to no avail. The shouts by the nanny attracted two security personnel at the supermarket to the car but by the time the security men arrived the scene,  the baby had been bitten severally on the stomach by the dog, leaving the baby in a pool of blood. The baby was taken to a nearby hospital along Nnebisi Road, but it was too late by the time they got to the hospital as the baby, the woman’s first child, had already died.

The nanny while speaking with newsmen said, “Madam asked us to stay inside the car, because the dog was to be treated at the veterinary; suddenly, I saw the dog moving closer to the baby and I shouted for help when the dog opened its teeth. I ran out of the car to call madam but she did not come on time”. In a swift reaction, the husband of the woman amidst tears, said “my wife said it is the devil’s work and that devil’s work will take her out of my house, I have warned her about the dog when I noticed that the dog had been behaving funny. She still kept carrying the dog claiming that she was going to give treatment to the dog. This is how the devil had ruined her.”

I will rather call it STUPIDITY on the part of the nanny. When the dog moved closer to the baby, What stopped the her from clinging with the baby instead she ran out of the car leaving the baby all by herself.