Crime

Teenage mother breeds babies for sale in Imo

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9 years ago

November 16, 2017

A couple in Imo sold off their first child for N200, 000 to be paid later, and then snatched another boy they sold for N500,00- before the state police command’s anti-kidnapping unit busted them and rescued the child.

Ifeanyi Anyanwu and Amarachi Ugorji, 18, kidnapped two-year-old Ikechukwu Nwachukwu on August 28 from his parents in Umuozu-Uguiri in the Isiala Mbano.

Ugorji is already pregnant again.

“The two suspects, after the kidnap, started demanding ransom from the parents of the child. When the parents of the kidnapped child could not provide the money, they opted to sell the child to one Ifeanyinwa Duru, 39, at the cost of N500,000. Duru, in turn, resold the child to one Chidimma Emmanuel, 42, at the cost of N700,000,” said Police Public Relations Officer Andrew Enwerem, during a parade on Wednesday.

The latest incident, the couple kidnapped and sold the victim to one Ifeanyinwa Duru.

Duru also resold the boy to one Mrs. Chidinma Emmanuel, for N700,000.

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The last two traffickers were however arrested in Aba, Abia State.

“The two buyers were arrested in Aba following painstaking investigation, while the child was rescued unhurt and has since been reunited with the legitimate parents by the command.

“The suspects have confessed to the crime and investigation has been concluded. The syndicate will soon be charged to court.

“The Commissioner of Police, Chris Ezike, has instructed all heads of the tactical units of the command to go all out against those who trade in human beings, especially children, who have done nothing wrong except that they were born into a society that has lost its values.”

Emmanuel said her desperation to have a male child after the death of her husband git her into child trafficking.