The Ebonyi State Police Command has confirmed the death of a 29-year-old mother of four, Mrs Chinasa Odah, from Inikiri Effium, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, after she took some drugs meant for abortion given to her by her suspected boyfriend, one Mgbada.
According to DSP Loveth Odah, who confirmed the death noted that the woman bled to death at Sudan Hospital on Saturday, August 24, leaving behind her four children.
She said that the suspect will be arraigned after investigation as “the matter was still under investigation.”
“The law says hearsay is not a piece of evidence in the court but when the originator is dead, it could be administered in the court if the statement was made in the gathering of the family.
“So, we have deposited the body in the mortuary. The man cannot be allowed to go because somebody is dead on this matter. The man will be charged for murder and the death declaration will be administered in the court for the presiding judge to decide. The court has the final say,” Odah said.
It was gathered that the woman had been sneaking out to have an affair with his 25-years-old boyfriend identified as Mgbada on Monday, who allegedly impregnated her and administered the abortion substance on her, but unfortunately, she died after bleeding profusely.
A community source told INDEPENDENT that the woman started bleeding and her husband, Mr Michael Odah, who could not bear the pains of her wife, rushed the wife to Sudan hospital were doctors confirmed that she had taken a substance capable of damaging her womb, which led to her eventual death.
The source said, she confessed that she was pregnant and her boyfriend gave her drugs to terminate the pregnancy, which caused the bleeding and she died immediately after making the statement.
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