Child Trafficking: Man Sold Pregnant Wife’s Unborn Child for N200,000
May 24, 2013
The Lagos State Police Command, Thursday, arrested Chibuzor Mba, 27, and his wife, Adaobi, 23, with the pregnant woman revealing the shocking news that her husband had already sold her unborn baby for N200,000. The couple who were originally were arrested for allegedly stealing a neighbour’s four-year-old son, Stanley Uchenna Ezeaka, at their home located at Jakande Area of Ajagbandi, Lagos, made the shocking discovery after being quizzed by police detectives. Police spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, said the couple tricked the little boy, Stanley, when his parents were not at home and took him to Calabar, Cross River State, where he was sold to a woman, Benedict Ogbonna, a resident of Onitsha, Anambra State, who operates an illegal orphanage home, for N400, 000. The same boy was allegedly resold to another woman, Patricia Mgbuowor, who has been childless for 29 years, for the sum of N600,000.