A couple who operate a syndicate of
buying and selling new born babies at
their residence in Urhobo Road, Warri,
Delta State are now in police net for
allegedly selling a day-old baby girl.
Sources said the Ughelli born midwife,
who lives with her husband in her late
father’s compound, operates a poorly
equipped medicine store which she uses
as a base for the inhumane business.
It was further alleged that she does that
with the connivance of poor and
desperate parents of new born babies
and women desperately in need of
children.
Luck was said to have ran out on the
couple when one of their patients, whose
husband was in desperate need of money
to buy a tricycle, agreed to sell their new
born baby girl without the knowledge of
his wife.
As a result, the unsuspecting mother was
given a sedative while her new born baby
was sold and the money given to her
husband.
It was gathered that when she woke up,
the woman demanded to see her new
born baby girl and was told by her
husband that the child died and had been
buried.
Suspecting foul play, the mother
immediately reported the matter to her
relations who stormed the residence of
the suspects with some policemen and
after serious interrogation by her
relations, the midwife was said to have
confessed to the crime, saying it had
been her stock in trade over the years.
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