Bose, a deaf young lady, has been put in family way twice by unknown men. She gave birth to the first child six years ago and is currently heavily pregnant.

The expectant lady who resides at Abule Egba area of Lagos State is expected to put to bed before the end of the month.

The situation surrounding her pregnancy saddens her mother. “She does not know the person that impregnated her,” the distraught mother, Mrs Oladipupo, told our correspondent.

“We have prodded her to reveal the person to no avail.

“The woman who taught her in school has even used sign language to ask her to reveal the person who impregnated her but there was no headway, and she is due to give birth this month,” the worried mother said.

The mother’s frustration is worsened by the fact that it is not her first pregnancy. “She was impregnated before now and she had a child from it,” she said.

She disclosed that the person who impregnated Bose the first time did not show up. “The second person  too remains invisible. I have no help or support from anywhere. I only depend on God to carry this huge responsibility.

“I am the only one seeing to her welfare. I am a mere sweeper.

“I am the one taking care of the first child now. It is not easy for me to take care of the child, not to talk of Bose in her present condition.

“I am struggling to feed and yet have this enormous burden thrusted on my shoulder.

“I enrolled the child she gave birth to in a public school. She is just six years old.”

The daughter’s first and second pregnancies remain a mystery to the distraught mother and continue to befuddle her because she does not know any man with her.

”I am not aware of any guy as her boyfriend. Even my neighbours said they don’t also know any boy in her life.

“We have laboured in vain to know the person who impregnated her.

“I have the conviction that when God helps me to settle the hospital bills and delivers her safely, He will smoke out the man who impregnated her.”

As tears continued to well up in her eyes, she recalled the exploitation of her daughter’s vulnerability by depraved randy men.

In spite of the distress and contempt that the daughter’s predicament has brought upon her in her neighbourhood, the thought of leaving Bose to face the challenges all alone has never crossed her mind.

“As a vulnerable child, it is not proper to just abandon her to her own fate,” she said in a tone laden with emotion.

Asked when she became aware of Bose’s new pregnancy, she said: “I did not know that she was pregnant until people drew my attention to it. I don’t know how to identify a pregnant woman.

“I thereafter took her to the hospital where it was confirmed that she is truly pregnant.”

As Bose’s due date is fast approaching, the hospital has handed over the bills she would need to settle before they would admit her to deliver the baby.

“The money we were asked to pay in the hospital is very much. I have not been able to pay a dime out of it.”

Asked how much the hospital asked them to pay, she said: “The whole money is about N70,000. She has done some medical tests but they recently asked her to do a PCV test to know her blood level.

“I am still worried about how to sort that out, and now they have asked us to pay about N70,000. I told them that I would bring her to do the test on Monday.

“She goes for ante natal. She even went this morning. She goes with about N2000 each time.

“I always manage to give her N1000 while she also adds N1000 to be able to go for a check-up.

“She is a mobile hairdresser. She supports what I bring with whatever little she gets from her work.”

She told our correspondent that she was yet to report Bose’s case to any government organisation. “But her former teacher is trying to help me to do that,” she said.