My dad gives me N30,000 for each child I steal – Female kidnapper confesses

A 22-year-old suspected female kidnapper, identified as Adeola Omoniyi, has confessed how she had been kidnapping toddlers in areas in Ondo State in the past two years.

The suspect, revealed that she had been giving the kidnapped children to her dad, Ilesanmi Omoniyi, who compensate her with the sum of N30,000 for each operation.

The suspect, who was taken round the police headquarters alongside her father, said she was arrested at Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State while on her third operation.

While narrating how she had been perpetrating the crime, she said “I’m a kidnapper. I do kidnap little children and I always deliver them to my father in his house at Igbotako. I was successful with the first two children I took but I was caught with the third one.

“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.”

The father of the suspect who falsified the claim against him, said his daughter was telling lies against him, #and that she was mentally deranged.

“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.”

The spokesperson of the police in the state, SP Funmi Odunlami, said that the suspected kidnapper would be charged to court after necessary investigation is done.