Operatives of the Ogun Police Command have arrested a 23-year-old lady, Mary Olatayo, for allegedly selling her three weeks old baby for N600,000.
The suspect was arrested following a complaint by the baby’s father who reported at Mowe Divisional Police Headquarters in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun.
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The Police Spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this in a statement made available to journalists in Abeokuta on Thursday.
He said the complainant told the police that he was in a relationship with the suspect and she got pregnant for him.
According to him, the father said he rented an apartment for the suspect where she lived until she was delivered of a baby boy.
“He (the father) complained further that the lady suddenly disappeared with the baby from the apartment 3 weeks after delivery only for her to be found in an hotel where she has gone for a hookup with another man.
“All efforts to know where the baby is proved futile,” Oyeyemi quoted the complainant as saying.
Oyeyemi said after the report, the DPO Mowe division, SP Folake Afeniforo, detailed detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested and brought to the station.
“On interrogation, Mary Olatayo confessed to the Police that she has sold the baby to someone in Anambra state at the rate of six hundred thousand naira.
“She confessed that it was her friend Chioma Esther Ogbonna who led her to the buyer in Anambra state and that they both shared the money equally,” he said.
The Police Spokesman hinted that her confession led to the arrest of Chioma Esther Ogbonna who also corroborated Mary’s claims.
According to him, further investigation by the police revealed that, Mary Olatayo, a native of Omu-Aran in Kwara state, is a call girl, who sees the baby as a disturbance to her business hence she decided to do away with the baby.
“Fortunately for her, she has an accomplice in Chioma a native of Imo state who quickly contacted the buyer in Anambra state,” he said.
Oyeyemi quoted the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, to have ordered the transfer of the suspects to anti human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation Departments for further investigation.
He said the CP also directed that everything possible must be done to recover the baby.
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