Be that as it may, the mother-of-four was compelled to escape her home in the town of Gwoza a fortnight prior when a man debilitated to murder her two-year-old kid Mohammed, the child of a Boko Haram warrior.
"He let me know that on the off chance that I didn't take the youngster away, he would purchase petrol and set the kid ablaze until he smoldered to slag," Umar told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone from Madagali, 22 km (14 miles) away, where she now lives with her sibling.
The man, who saw Boko Haram murder three of his kids, was one of numerous individuals in Gwoza who made it clear to Umar that her child was not welcome in the group subsequent to their arrival home.
"Individuals would not like to play with the youngster ... they called him Boko Haram youngster," Umar said, including that she got the most manhandle from the individuals who had lost relatives to Boko Haram.
Ladies who are previous Boko Haram prisoners, and their kids resulting from assault, face question and mistreatment when they return home, as indicated by a report by peacebuilding bunch International Alert and the U.N. youngsters' organization UNICEF.
Numerous individuals fear those held by the Islamist activist gathering have been radicalized and may select others when they return home, said the report, which was distributed recently.
More than 2,000 ladies and young ladies have been stole by Boko Haram since 2012, a hefty portion of whom have been assaulted, prepared to battle, or utilized as suicide aircraft, as per the report.
Joint operations amongst Nigeria and neighboring nations succeeded in driving Boko Haram from a significant number of its fortresses a year ago yet the Islamists have ventured up cross-outskirt assaults and suicide bombings, a hefty portion of them did by young ladies.
"There is a conviction that the blood of the father will dependably keep running in a tyke's veins and in this way that these youngsters will in the end turn on their families and groups," said Rachel Harvey, head of kid security for UNICEF in Nigeria.
"BOKO HARAM CHILD"
Umar was abducted in August 2014 by Boko Haram activists who shot her better half in the head before taking her into Sambisa Forest, an unfathomable provincial period amusement hold where the aggressors cover up in disengaged camps to keep away from the Nigerian military.
Umar trusts the aggressor to whom she was hitched is the father of her two-year-old child. He was named Mohammed Yusuf after Boko Haram's author, who kicked the bucket in police guardianship in 2009.
When she returned home to Gwoza a year ago and discovered that her three youngsters from her killed spouse had been taken in by a neighbor, the family were thrilled to be brought together.
"In any case, individuals began letting them know that their sibling was a Boko Haram youngster," she said, including that the three kids turned out to be progressively hesitant to play with Mohammed.
"My most seasoned little girl let me know: 'Mummy, if it's not too much trouble take this tyke to his dad and return to us'."
Notwithstanding moving to Madagali in Adamawa state, Umar is confronting crisp disgrace as individuals get to be mindful of her child's legacy.
Her relatives would prefer not to touch Mohammed while individuals point at her in broad daylight and stay away, Umar said.
Reviewing how she covertly plotted her break from Sambisa with many other ladies, Umar discusses how she precisely strapped her baby to her back as she fled to keep him safe.
However the misuse she has endured subsequent to getting away Boko Haram has pushed her to limit.
"On the off chance that I had somebody to remove this youngster from me, I would welcome the thought."
(Reporting By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Additional Reporting and Writing by Kieran Guilbert, Editing by Ros Russell; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the beneficent arm of Thomson Reuters, that spreads compassionate news, ladies' rights, trafficking, debasement and environmental change. Visit news.trust.org)
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