The Rivers State Police Command has uncovered a ‘baby factory’ run by a child trafficking syndicate in Aluu, Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state.
During the operation, six pregnant women between the ages of 20 and 23 years, were rescued.
The women were being held with the intention to trade their babies after being delivered of them.
Meanwhile, the operator of the child trafficking centre, Akudo Azoroh, who confessed to running the illegal business, was arrested.
She confessed to giving out the babies to families that do not have children, and not to ritualists.
She explained that the women were already pregnant when they came to her, adding that she pays them off with as much as N800,000 to N900,00, depending on the stage of the pregnancy when they get to the home and the gender of the child upon delivery.
She said, “I have given out six children in the past, I started the business three years ago. I do not have boys who get the girls pregnant, they were already pregnant when they came; they came to me on their own.
“I give out the babies only to families that don’t have children and not to ritualists. I give them out for between N1.4 and N1.5 million, depending on the sex of the baby, while I pay their mothers off depending on the stage of the pregnancy at the time they came in.”
Some of the pregnant women confessed that they went to the factory pregnant and with the intention to give out their babies because they do not have the financial capacity to cater for the children after birth.
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