A 23-year-old mother is helping the Ogun State police in their investigations after she allegedly sold her three-weeks old baby for N600,000.
Ogun State police spokesperson SP Abimbola Oyeyemi who confirmed the development on Thursday, said the woman was arrested after the baby’s father reported the baby missing at the Mowe police divisional headquarters on August 18.
“The baby’s father explained that the suspect suddenly disappeared with the baby from the apartment three weeks after delivery only for her to be found in a hotel where she had gone to hook up with another man.
“All efforts to know where the baby was proved futile,” Mr Oyeyemi said.
He said that Mowe Divisional Police Officer, SP Folake Afeniforo, detailed detectives to the scene and the suspect was arrested.
Mr Oyeyemi said that, on interrogation, the suspect confessed that she had sold the baby for N600,000 to someone in Anambra State. The police spokesperson added that the suspect said that her friend led her to the buyer and they shared the money equally. According to the spokesman, the friend had been arrested and she corroborated the woman’s claims.
Mr Oyeyemi said the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered the transfer of the two suspects to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation.
He added that the commissioner of police directed intensified efforts to recover the baby. NAN