Two Women Arrested For Stealing Three-Day Old Baby In Delta

Two women have been taken into custody by the Delta State police on charges of snatching a three-day-old infant and trying to sell it.

The command’s spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe, confirmed the arrest to reporters on October 1 at approximately 6.30 p.m. The rider, whose name is withheld, went to the Ekpan police station and said that, during his routine commercial ride, four women got on his tricycle. When they arrived at the Effurun roundabout, two of the women got off the tricycle.

‘’One of the two women who alighted handed over a newborn baby boy to the women left in his tricycle and he heard one of them saying, the balance has been paid while saying that when they get to their destination, they should inform her. The tricycle rider smartly diverted the two women Identified as Tessi Ikechukwu, and Lauretta Akomen, and the newborn baby to Ekpan Police Station.”

Preliminary investigation, according to Edafe, showed that one of the suspects, 38-year-old Lauretta Akomen, purchased the child for two million naira (#2,000,000) from a traditional home in Port Harcourt where teenage girls are housed and men are allowed to have sex with them until they become pregnant, at which point the babies are sold to adoptive parents.

The suspect also disclosed, according to a police spokeswoman, that she had been given a medication to appear pregnant, which she had used for a while.

‘’She later led the DPO CSP Aliyu Shaba and operatives to the house of one Gloria (surname unknown) who acted as an agent between her and the traditional home. Suspects are in custody while a manhunt for the other accomplices is ongoing.” he said.

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