‘I was only trying to correct her’ – Teenage housewife arrested for killing stepdaughter

<p>An 18-year-old pregnant housewife, Khadija Adamu, who was arrested for beating her five-year-old stepdaughter to death, has said she had no intention of killing the little girl.</p>, <p>Khadija said she was only trying to scold the child for defecating on her pants.</p>, <p>DAILY POST reports that the Bauchi State Police Command paraded Khadija on Tuesday for allegedly beating her stepdaughter, Hafsat, to death.</p>, <p>The incident was said to have occurred on September 28, 2023, in the Kandahar area of the Bauchi metropolis.</p>, <p>According to the Police spokesman, SP Ahmed Wakil, the suspect was reported at the A Divisional Police headquarters by her husband, Abdulaziz Adamu, 38, after she beat up the victim “as a result of alleged pass-stool that spoiled her clothes”.</p>, <p>Narrating what led to Hafsat’s death, Khadija, in an interview with our reporter at the Command headquarters, said, “How can I kill a child who was like my child? Even though she was my co-wife’s baby, she was also my daughter because she was my husband’s child. </p>, <p>“What happened was just a mistake and not a deliberate intention to kill.</p>, <p>“I am also a mother, and I am currently four months pregnant with my second child. How can I possibly kill another child? What happened was that this girl defecated on her body, and I felt that at her age, she shouldn’t have done that, so I used a USB cord to beat her with it. It was not as if I had any intention of killing her.</p>, <p>“I didn’t know she would die. I only wanted to correct her. She didn’t die that day I beat her, it was the next day that she died, and I felt very sad and unhappy that she had died.”</p>