Seven Pregnant Women Who Return To Baby Factory Arrested
Seven pregnant young women who earlier were rescued from a suspected baby factory have been arrested by the Abia State Police Command for returning there.
According to Punch, 19 women were rescued from baby factory in Umunkpeyi, Isislangwa South, by the operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abia State Command. However, later seven of them were arrested at Osisioma junction in Aba, according to the state Police Public Relations Officer, Geoffrey Ogbonna.
Geoffrey Ogbonna said that the NSCDC hired a commercial bus to convey them back to their hometown in Imo State, but "as soon as the driver dropped them off at Douglass Road in Owerri, the women chattered another bus to take them back to the baby factory."
The police also paraded three female suspects ─ Blessing Oluchukwu, Promise Onyezu, and Nkechi Kalu ─ who were arrested for allegedly trying to sell the unborn child of Onyezu who is said to be six months pregnant.
According to the report, one of the suspects, Nkechi Kalu, had earlier collected an advance of N50,000 from Blessing Oluchukwu who was going to buy the baby.
Another suspected child trafficker Joseph Essien, a native of Ifetai in Calabar, Cross River State, was nabbed for allegedly stealing a three-year-old child, Dorcas Usen.
The state Police Public Relations Officer said Essien was arrested with the victim at Aba while negotiating with a buyer, he was promised N200,000. "The suspect confessed that he stole the victim from Calabar where the mother had kept her in the custody of her siblings," he said.
Chidimma Ukpai, Felicia Ahukanna and Peace Ogbonna were also paraded as suspected child traffickers.
The PPRO said the suspects, all from Alaukwu community in Isiala Ngwa South, were found in possession of three babies, including a set of twins, allegedly stolen at gun point by their accomplices, one Lucky Ohakwe, and another still at large.
The police spokesman said the suspects would be charged to court after investigations had been concluded.
Source: Legit.ng
