In the face of hunger, the search of survival is at it’s highest peak however, when it coincides with a negative move from one’s mother, disastrous footsteps are sure to be followed. An Abia State based teenager has been apprehended along side her mother over a case of child trafficking
According to the reports, a 17 year old identified as Gift Daniel was arrested after the Abia police command arrested members of three suspected child traffickers, who are baby sellers.
It was gathered that Gift sold her two day old baby for the sum of N670, 000.
Upon her arrest, the teenager told newsmen that she was compelled to sell the baby due to financial difficulties.
She added that her first baby, also a boy, was sold by her own mother after delivery, hence her resolve to personally sell the second baby.
In her words,
“My mother sent me away from the house, when I became pregnant for the second baby and because of the financial difficulties, I started looking for somebody to help me.” .
Though she successfully sold the child for N670,000, she said that she was given N50,000 by the woman that brokered the transaction, identified as 38-year-old Ngozi Nwaiwu, while the nurse, Kate Charles, who helped her during her delivery, got N30,000. .
Upon questioning, 38 years old Nwaiwu said she was trying to help the teenage mother, considering her plight.
The state Commissioner of Police, Anthony Ogbizi, said the suspects were arrested by police operatives at Osisioma Aba after a tip off, while efforts are being made to arrest the buyer, Mrs. Maria and possibly recover the baby
