20Year Old Girl Arrested For Selling Her 2 Week Old Baby For N20k In Cross River.

Maria Ekanem sold her two week old baby to an
Abuja-based woman for N20,000. According to
a report by Vanguard, the 20-year-old school drop out
from Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River
State, was arrested by the police along with her
accomplices.

Her boyfriend got her pregnant and asked her to abort
the baby. However, a doctor agreed to help her with
free antenatal care and food and in exchange she agreed
to sell her baby after delivery.

Paraded along with Ms Ekanem were the medical doctor,
Okokon Offiong Okohon,55, the proprietor of Evangel
Clinic,of 2, Atu Street, a 70-year-old matron of Sadatoe
Maternity located at Umoh Street and a nurse.

Maria Elemi, a Senior Secondary School student of NYSC
Demonstration School, Calabar, leaked the plan to sell
the baby to the police.

"When I came back from school on Monday, Maria
told me she wanted to take the baby to the parents of
the boy who impregnated her since she can no longer
cope with taking care of the baby," said Miss Elemi,
whose parents Maria Ekanem was living with after delivery.

Maria Ekanem gave the baby to the matron when they
got to Inyang Street in Calabar South. The matron in
turn handed her to the buyer.

"The woman gave Maria N20,000 and asked her to
pay the nurse at the Evangel Clinic and use the rest for
herself."

Miss Elemi became suspicious when the driver of the
SUV told the woman with the baby that her husband
said she should take her to the airport to catch a flight
to Abuja.

"I started wondering why they should take the girl to
the airport when the boyfriend to Maria and her parents
live here in Calabar," Maria stated.

Cross River Police Public Relations Officer, ASP John Eluu,
who paraded Maria along with the doctor and Matron,
said detectives swung into action and arrested the
suspects immediately information got to them at the
Federal Housing Police Station.
Eluu added that investigations is currently ongoing to
apprehend the woman who bought the baby.

Source: Vanguard

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