For
quite some time now, a new wave of making money through selling of new born
babies and child trafficking is currently sweeping across parts of the country.
The racket of keeping young girls and boys to produce children and then sell to
desperate buyers is fast gaining prominence not only in the South-East but also
in South West.
Operators
of the homes and their syndicates usually scout for females with unwanted
pregnancies and lure teenagers to their
herbal clinic for delivery. Some keep young girls (teenagers) and allow their
male syndicates to impregnate them and hold them in hostage throughtout the
gestation period. Thereafter, the owner
of the home settles them with cash and administers the babies to desperate
childless women who patronise her herbal clinic to seek for fruits of the womb
at higher costs.
Recently,
a London based couple travelled to Nigeria where the woman received fertility
treatment at a maternity home. She returned to the clinic months later and she
was sedated. When she regained consciousness, she was handed a baby and told
she had given birth.
On
her return to London, the authorities raised concerns. The child was taken into
care and a DNA test proved the child was not related to the couple. The London
police then launched legal proceedings to get custody of the baby arguing that
the couple’s story was a ‘charade.’
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