Baby Factory Raided, 32 Girls Freed From Sex Slave

Nigerian police have raided a home allegedly being used to force teenage girls to have babies that were then offered for sale for trafficking or other purposes. "We stormed the premises of the Cross Foundation in Aba three days ago following a report that pregnant girls aged between 15 and 17 are being made to make babies for the proprietor," said Bala Hassan, police commissioner for Abia state in the country's southeast.

"We rescued 32 pregnant girls and arrested the proprietor who is undergoing interrogation over allegations that he normally sells the babies to people who may use them for rituals or other purposes." Some of the girls told police they had been offered to sell their babies for between 25,000 and 30,000 naira ($192 dollars) depending on the sex of the baby.


The babies would then be sold to buyers for anything from 300,000 naira to one million naira (1,920 and 6,400 dollars) each, according to a state agency fighting human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). The girls were expected to be transferred to the regional NAPTIP offices in Enugu on Wednesday, the regional head Ijeoma Okoronkwo told AFP.


Hassan said the owner of the "illegal baby factory" is likely to face child abuse and human trafficking charges. Buying or selling of babies is illegal in Nigeria and can carry a 14-year jail term. "We have so many cases going on in court right now," said Okoronkwo

In 2008, police raids revealed an alleged network of such clinics, dubbed baby "farms" or "factories" in the local press. Cases of child abuse and people trafficking are common in West Africa. Some children are bought from their families to for use as labour in plantations, mines, factories or as domestic help.
Others are sold into prostitution while a few are either killed or tortured in black magic rituals. NAPTIP says it has also seen a trend of illegal adoption.

 

"There is a problem of illict adoption and people not knowing the right way to adopt children," said Okoronkwo. Human trafficking is ranked the third most common crime after economic fraud and drug trafficking in the country, according to UNESCO ...Source

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Comment by pentho andrew on June 3, 2011 at 9:45am

i cant believe it. am so shocked 

Comment by clifford on June 3, 2011 at 7:08am
@george lawanson, before you open your mouth the to call Eastern part of nigeria watch your side,what there are doing is wrong if they sell the babies to an onknown person for aduption ,but this so call people are saving most of our girls from dying in abortion, so the girls now abandone the child and run back to school only for the owner of the place, give the baby to a person that dont have, and today he,or she is label a wicked person may God help us
Comment by isibor emeke on June 3, 2011 at 6:29am
9ja!
Comment by george lawanson on June 3, 2011 at 4:52am
Wonderful happens in the Eastern part of nigeria.
Comment by almada garris on June 3, 2011 at 2:01am
sooooo shameful, always some one from here hav to rescue things like this, but im sure nigera is off limits, will b glad when the world will b free of such awful stuff.only when Jesus change it.
Comment by sadiq usman on June 3, 2011 at 12:54am
unbelievable. what a world?
Comment by Amaka on June 3, 2011 at 12:42am
Why is man so wicked even after God has created us in his own image. There is still devil hovering around, but he gets u when u give him a chance.
Comment by G Girl1 on June 2, 2011 at 10:30pm
ah, some people are animals in human skin, why are some of our people this wicked and heartless. Riches don't come through Rituals and forced labor, what ill activities like this bring about is the destruction of those who go into it, the money made are just peanuts.

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