Teenage mother arrested for selling her 1-year old baby in Enugu

An teenage girl, Ezinne Okike, has been detained by the police in Enugu State, for selling her one year old baby, along with two other suspects who acted as middlemen in the unholy transaction.

It was gathered that the teenage mother who hails from Isu-Mbaneze village in Ohaozara Local

Government Area of Ebonyi State, had sold her baby named Chisom Raphael, because she could no longer provide for her because the man who got her pregnant abandoned her and her parents refused to support her.

While confessing to selling her baby, Okike said she had nothing to taking care of the baby and informed her bosom friend who connected her to the buyer.

The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the arrest of the suspects, and also said that the girl had the baby out of wedlock and decided to keep it but when she could no longer take care of it, she decided to sell it off.

 "The suspect narrated that when things were no longer working smoothly for her while at home, her bosom friend,  identified as one Promise Godwin, 20, also from Isu Mbaneze Ohazara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State  approached her and told her to come to Enugu with the child with a promise that somebody was going to take care of Ezinne and little Chisom Raphael," Amaraizu said, adding that the suspects would soon be charged to court for child trafficking.