'I sold my baby for N250K' - Teenage suspect

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May 23, 2017 12:47 PM

A teenager who allegedly sold her baby to a child trafficker for N250,000 has been arrested by the police in Abia State.

The baby trafficking syndicate

A teenage girl who allegedly

A statement from the command quoted the state Commissioner of Police, CP Adeleye Oyebade as saying that the baby was rescued by operatives attached to the state Anti-Kidnapping Unit on May 19, 2017, following a tip-off, and has reunited the baby with its mother at the command headquarters in Umuahia.

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CP Oyebade said that the baby girl was recovered while the detectives were investigating the activities of some suspected child traffickers in the state following the information received from one of their victims.

“One was arrested in the course of the investigation for keeping two pregnant teenagers, identified as and and selling their babies after birth,” CP Oyebade4 said while briefing newsmen.

A senior police officer who also commented on the incident revealed that the mother of the teenager whose baby was recovered had connived with the baby’s mother to sell the child to a suspected child trafficker who resided at Port Harcourt, Rivers State, before the trade was foiled by the police.

Udofia and Obiah have already confessed that both of them were introduced to Asukwo while they were pregnant, adding that they were paid N250,000 each after selling their babies when they put to bed.

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Asukwo also confessed that she kept the two teenagers and helped them to deliver their babies when they were due for delivery before they were sold off to the traffickers who sold them to a woman who is now on the run.

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