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The missing baby
This evening she stood with her heart
pounding, sure that the ghomogbomo people
had kidnapped her child. For all she knew
he might be dead. The police, no, the teacher
first. She hailed a taxi, waved the bargaining
aside and headed for the teacher's house.
The teacher tried to hide her own panic and
started off for the caretaker's house.
The caretaker had not seen anything
amiss, but he did remember a baby crying
when his mother had not come to collect
him. Both mother and teacher urged the
old man to try and remember something,
anything. The old man tried, then he
remembered that an old woman passed by
and seeing a baby crying by the fence, had
given him a sweet and spoken to him, and
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she had left before the old man could
to her to reprimand her. She had passed by
again later on but he was busy at the ti
and did not see anything amiss. The mothe
was now weeping, fear had turned
desolation. The teacher tried to make sense
of the whole situation, then decided to
to the police with the mother and caretake
to make a report of a missing per
distraught mother to accompany her back t
The police took sufficient pity on the
her house to make a few enquiries about th
missing child. The four set off. The police
the caretaker, the teacher and the mothe
A short distance away from the house they
saw an elderly woman carrying a small c
who looked like Baby. They all rushed
woman. It was indeed Baby! The m
grabbed her child and hugged the
at the same time. It was the baby's an
Baby started crying, the mother sont
child, while the minder explained how sh
took the child to her home when she sa
him unattended so long after the closing
hours. She then sent to check Baby's moth
at home and at work. When there was
news of the mother, she was on her w
to the hospital, then to the police to m
enquiries. The police spoke to the mot
You people are always blaming the po
If I did not take your case seriously,
would have called us heartless. Mi-
people are only missing after twenty
hours. Please make proper arrangem
for your child's protection, madam.
Read the passage carefully and identify the main point in each paragraph relevant to the title of the passage