Crime
Hotel turns baby factory, keeps 35 teenagers as sex workers, producers
No fewer than 35 teenagers between 14 years and 17 years have been rescued from sex slavery at a hotel Nkpor, Idemili GA, Anambra.
DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, police spokesman in the state, said this in a statement issued in Awka on Wednesday.
Four of the rescued victims were pregnant.
According to him, police operatives combed the hotel on June 13 and rescued the girls being used as sex slaves, prostitutes and baby producers.
“The victims shall be handed to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons for their welfare and rehabilitation,’’ he said
Three persons were arrested in connection with the crime and that three pump action guns, seven cartridges and N877,500 were recovered.
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