A stray dog scavenging for food found an abandoned baby boy in a forest in Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area, Anambra State.
The stray dog was believed to have brought the infant across a busy road and kept him in public view, possibly for passersby to pick up for rehabilitation.
The dog was believed to have spotted the newborn in a plastic bag abandoned in the jungle. The baby, who was thought to be stable, may have been abandoned in the jungle for roughly two days before the dog found him.
Corroborating the story in a trending video online, some women believed to be local midwives were seen cleaning the baby while condemning the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
The women and a man in the video puzzled how someone could bear a kid for nine months only to throw it away after birth.
While thanking God for preserving the infant from being consumed by animals, they urged offenders of such acts to give babies to others to care for rather than dumping them away.
The police are yet to comment on the matter as of now. Calls to Anambra’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Tochukwu Ikenga, did not go through.