{"id":27893,"date":"2024-04-19T07:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T07:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagos-police-rescue-3-infants-locked-up-by-grandmother\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T07:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T07:04:57","slug":"lagos-police-rescue-3-infants-locked-up-by-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagos-police-rescue-3-infants-locked-up-by-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Police rescue 3 infants locked up by grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Lagos State Police Command, on Thursday, rescued three infants who were locked up in a room by their grandmother in the Agodo-Egbe, Ikotun area of Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>The command spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the grandmother, identified as Fatimo Ganiyu, had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the grandmother\u2019s action was undisclosed, but the children: a girl and two boys between two and four years old, looked malnourished and were said to be wearing only diapers when rescued.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cAt about 4:00 pm, information was received at Ikotun Division that three children, a girl and two boys aged between two and four years, were locked up by their grandmother, one Fatimo Ganiyu, around Agodo, Egbe-Ikotun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe Divisional Police Officer immediately led a team of anti-crime detectives to the scene and the children were rescued and taken to the station, although they appeared malnourished and unhealthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect was arrested while the infants will be transferred for proper treatment and care. Investigation is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lagos Police rescue 3 infants locked up by grandmother<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Police Command, on Thursday, rescued three infants who were locked up in a room by their grandmother&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10619,384,15],"tags":[164,387,180,99],"class_list":["post-27893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lagos-police","category-metro","category-news","tag-lagos","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}