Police arrest woman for selling her 3 month old baby for N300, 000
The police in Bayelsa State say they have apprehended a woman for selling her three-month-old baby.
The Police Public Relations Officer,
Bayelsa State Police Command, Mr. Asinim Butswat, said in a statement on
Wednesday that the suspect, Oyikepreye Enoch, sold a baby girl to
one Esther Tony, 30.
Though the police spokesman did not
indicate the motive behind the sale of the infant, he, however, said the
28-year-old suspect, who was the mother of the baby, sold her for N300,000.
Butswat said the suspect (Enoch) was
already undergoing interrogation at the Akenfa Police Station in the Yenagoa
Local Government Area of the state.
He said, “Detectives from the Akenfa
Police Station, Yenagoa, have arrested one Oyikepreye Enoch, female, 28 years,
for allegedly selling a three-month-old baby girl to one Esther Tony, female,
30.
“The suspect sold the baby, who is her
child, for N300,000. Enoch and Tony are undergoing interrogation at the Akenfa
Police Station, Yenagoa.”
He added that investigation was ongoing
to ascertain the motive behind the criminality.
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