A two-week-old male child was abandoned
at a shrine in Abua/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The chairperson of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Rivers State branch, Tamunoibuemi Life-George, disclosed this on Tuesday.
She explained that the group received credible information on Sunday, June 14, 2026, that a two-week-old male infant had been abandoned in front of a local shrine in the area.
“We immediately escalated the incident and got the child rescued through the support of the police”, she added.
She said preliminary findings and interviews with the mother revealed that the young woman had initially left the baby in the care of the child’s father due to a lack of provision of necessities.
“Later, the grandfather, who is the father of the infant’s father, took the baby and dumped him in front of a shrine in the middle of the night,” she alleged.
Life-George further said that the organisation and some good samaritans had provided emergency living support for the young mother to enable her to continue breastfeeding the baby.
She said the case is presently being handled at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital in Port Harcourt.
She pointed out that to sustain the intervention, FIDA urgently requires financial support to cover medical costs and clinical evaluations prescribed at the RSUTH, nutritional support and welfare assistance for the young mother to enable her to adequately care for her child, among others.
She therefore called on public spirited individuals and organisations to support the intervention through financial contributions aimed at funding the baby’s medical diagnostics and providing immediate welfare materials for the child and the mother.
