Delta: Police Arrest Two Suspects For Stealing Three-day Old Baby
By Anne Osemekeh, Abuja
Police operatives in Delta state have apprehended two female suspects for stealing a 3-day old baby.
The state Command’s PRO, Edafe Bright, who disclosed this on Thursday, said, the arrest follows a tip off by a tricycle operator.
According to the tricycle operator, while on his daily operation, four women boarded his tricycle. On getting to Effurun roundabout, two of them alighted and one of the two women who alighted handed over a newborn baby boy to the women left in his tricycle. He said he overheard one of them saying that the balance has been paid and that she should be informed once they get to their destination.
The tricycle rider smartly changed the route and took the occupants including the newborn baby to Ekpan Police Station.
The PRO said preliminary investigation revealed that one of the suspects, Lauretta Akomen, aged 38, bought the baby for two million naira (N2,000,000) from a traditional home located in Port Harcourt where teenage girls are harboured and forced to have sex with men until they are pregnant, after which they sell the babies to people looking for children. The suspect also revealed that she was given a drug which she took for some time to make her look pregnant.
She later led the Divisional Police Officer, 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”, Bright stated.
