{"id":1205238,"date":"2022-09-15T19:11:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/street-beggar-using-fake-baby-to-garner-sympathy-exposed-video\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T19:11:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:11:14","slug":"street-beggar-using-fake-baby-to-garner-sympathy-exposed-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/street-beggar-using-fake-baby-to-garner-sympathy-exposed-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Street beggar using fake baby to garner sympathy exposed [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A young woman in the trade of duping unsuspecting with a stuffed baby has been captured on video begging for alms on the streets of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared online shows the moment\u00a0the beggar approached passengers in a private car and began asking them for help, with a baby in her arm.<\/p>\n<p>The passengers immediately suspected the baby was not real so they asked the beggar to show the child\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>The beggar was reluctant to comply but they kept insisting that they wanted to see the baby\u2019s face before giving her money.<\/p>\n<p>The beggar then pulled back the clothes covering the baby to reveal that what is beneath is just more clothes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CiiUOO6AFBG\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;margin: 1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99.375%;width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px);width:calc(100% - 2px)\"\/>\n<p>This modus operandi of begging is not new and unsurprising as many so-called smart people deploy similar tactics in different forms to make gains from others.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, netizens have slammed the folks behind the video for making a jest out of the situation which should be reported the police<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out some of the comments below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>wisdomcounsellin <\/strong>wrote: This is what happens when people are too proud to work but not ashamed to beg<\/p>\n<p><strong>uchennaji <\/strong>wrote: The fact that we actually find this dubious\/deceitful act funny is what I can\u2019t fathom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>accessorizebyiris<\/strong> wrote: I\u2019m sorry but if I don\u2019t see any obvious disability, I\u2019m not giving money\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>adadoby <\/strong>wrote: There\u2019s nothing funny here, they should be arrested\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>alysia_empire<\/strong> wrote: She\u2019s laughing she think it\u2019s funny. This is emotional blackmail<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; A young woman in the trade of duping unsuspecting with a stuffed baby has been captured on video begging for alms on the streets of Lagos. Footage shared online shows the moment\u00a0the beggar approached passengers in a private car and began asking them for help, with a baby in her arm. The passengers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1205239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[486,15374,3138,2258,25777,1023,2547,480],"class_list":["post-1205238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-baby","tag-beggar","tag-exposed","tag-fake","tag-garner","tag-street","tag-sympathy","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}