Sunday, 1 November 2015

I sold my Baby for #20000 because of Poverty-- A 20 year old mother confesses


A woman has allayed her impoverish condition to be the reason why she sold her baby.

20 year old Maria Ekanem, who was arrested by the police along five other accomplices, said her boyfriend who got her pregnant, asked her to abort the baby but said a doctor helped her with free antenatal care and food until she gave birth.


A 20 year old Maria (mother of the baby),was paraded with a 55-year-old medical doctor, Okokon Offiong Okoho, the proprietor of Evangel Clinic, a 70-year-old matron of Sadatoe Maternity located at Umoh Street Calabar and a nurse at the maternity who allegedly made the plans to sell the baby girl to an Abuja-based lady who is now on the run.

However, plans to sell the two weeks old girl was leaked to the police by Elemi a Senior Secondary Two girl of NYSC Demonstration Secondary School, Calabar. Maria was living  with her parent after she delivered of the baby.

Elemi said to have been suspicious of the ongoing development quickly raised an alarm and the police got involved apprehending all the suspects in the case.

Cross River Police Public Relations Officer, ASP John Eluu, who paraded Maria along with the doctor and Matron, said when information got to the police at the Federal Housing Police Station, detectives swung into action and arrested the suspects.

ASP Eluu said investigations were continuing to apprehend the buyer of the baby girl who is now on the run.

Maria, a school drop out from Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, said yesterday in Calabar that poverty and lack of where to stay after she gave birth made her sell her two weeks old baby girl for N20,000.

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