TVCE, NEWS – A 17-year old girl has been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly selling her baby girl to a couple, Mr. And Mrs. Sunday Kalu, in Onitsha, Anambra State who were desperately looking for a baby , for #500,000.
Although reports say the teenager was convinced to go into the trade by one Chibuzor Okoye whom the police described as a specialized child trafficker, the accused claimed to have gotten only #30,000 out of the sum.
After collecting the money, Okoye pocketed N470,000 and only gave Obiauna the token N30,000.
While parading the suspects at the state police headquarters, the Commissioner of Police, Hilda Ibifuro-Harrison, said the police got a tip on the matter when the teenager’s father, Henry Obianu, who lives at Ogbese in Akure North Local Government Area of the state, reported to the police that his pregnant daughter was missing.
According to her father, the girl ran away with her pregnancy in January last year but later re-appeared in May without the baby or pregnancy and after a lot of pressure from the family, she was said to have confessed to one of her uncles that she sold the baby to a couple in Onitsha.
It was through police investigation that it was discovered that the girl was lured to Onitsha by her father’s neighbour in Ogbese, simply identified as Jude Azuka where she was nursed in Okoye’s house till she was delivered of the baby which was sold to the childless couple.
