A Teenager Has Been Apprehended For Selling Her 2-months Old Baby For N120,000

A Teenager Has Been Apprehended For Selling Her 2-months Old Baby For N120,000 

A teenager and two traffickers of children has been apprehended by CIDs from the Imo State Police Command over the sale of a two months old baby.

The Commissioner of Police in charge of the state, Mr. Chris Ezike, while parading the suspects revealed that the teenager identified as Chiamaka Njoku, who is 18 years old, hail from  Umuokpo Emeabiam Owerri West LGA of Imo state, gave birth on the 10th of December, 2017, and sold the baby girl for N120,000, two months later.

The Commissioner of Police further disclosed  “She was impregnated by unidentified man out of wedlock. She left her parents house and was harboured by Okere Justice of the same address who contacted one Franca Chukwukere, the Proprietress of an illegal orphanage, Franca Gold Orphanage Lagos, where she remained until on 10/12/2017 when she put to bed. The baby girl was sold out at the cost of #300,000 and the sum of #120,000 sent to Chiamaka Njoku through Justice Okere. Two baby girls of one month three weeks and one month two weeks old respectively were recovered from the child trafficker”  Mr. Ezike revealed. 

The other suspect, 53-year-old Franca Chukwukere, a mum of 3 from Umuelem, Ihiagwa, Owerri West LGA of Imo state harboured the pregnant teenager till she delivered. She forged an orphanage document and sold the baby for N300,000 sending N120,000 to the owner of the baby through the other accomplice Justice Okere. Okere Justice, 42, who is also married with kids kept the teenager before trafficking the child and sending her to Chukwukere, who operates an illegal Orphanage.