A 30-year-old woman, Sukyama Irmiya, who recently stole an eight-month-old twin baby from the ward of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi, has regretted her action.

Irmiya, who hails from Kanam Local Government Area in Plateau State, said while speaking at the Bauchi State Police Command yesterday that the shame was too much for her to bear.

The 30-year-old woman said: “I have realised my mistakes. You can only feel what I felt when you find yourself in my precarious situation.

“Before you know it, it has become a wound in my heart to the extent that I prefer that I am dead by now than stand this shame I am facing.

“I am like a walking corpse. I am ready to die now but I demand total forgiveness from God and everyone hurt by my actions.

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“If I find favour and forgiveness from the parents of the baby, I will be very grateful to God.”

Irmiya, who blamed her action on childishness, said she was chased out of her husband’s house because she could not bear a child.

According to her, she tried adopting one but couldn’t because there was no infant child available at the orphanage homes she visited.

Narrating how she stole the baby, she said: “I went into the hospital confidently, entered the ward and met the woman. I engaged her in friendly conversation and she loosened up with me.

“I asked her if she had twins and she said yes.

“I then asked her, now that you are sick, how are you breastfeeding the children? She told me that she was giving them milk.

“I asked her if I could take him to see how he looked, and she allowed me to do that.

“Immediately I took the baby, my heart told me to act as the mother and go. I then told her that I was coming and I just left the hospital and went away with the baby.

“I followed the main entrance to the main road and boarded a Keke (commercial tricycle) and went to the village called Za’a in Kanam LGA.”