The Ogun State Police Command has apprehended a 23-year-old-woman, Mary Olatayo, for allegedly selling her three weeks old baby for N600,000.

The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this known in a statement on Thursday.

Oyeyemi revealed that the suspect was apprehended after a complaint was filed by the father of the baby at Mowe divisional headquarters.

The father of the baby had told the police that he met Mary Olatayo sometime ago and they started dating each other. This relationship led to pregnancy and the baby in question.

The man disclosed that when Mary got pregnant, he rented an apartment for her where she lived till she gave birth to a baby boy.

He said, “The man stated further that, Mary got pregnant in the process and he rented an apartment for her where she lived till she was delivered of a baby boy.”

According to the PPRO, the father of the baby said Olatayo suddenly disappeared with the baby from the rented apartment three weeks after delivery.

“He complained further that the lady suddenly disappeared with the baby from the apartment three weeks after delivery only for her to be found in a hotel where she has gone for a hookup with another man. All efforts to know where the baby is proved futile.”

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Meanwhile, the PPRO said detectives were detailed to the scene where the suspect was nabbed and brought to the station.

While being interrogated, Oyeyemi said Olatayo “confessed to the police that she has sold the baby to someone in Anambra State at the rate of six hundred thousand Naira. She confessed that it was her friend, Chioma Esther Ogbonna, who led her to the buyer in the state and that they both shared the money equally.”

Her confession led to the arrest of Chioma Esther Ogbonna who also confirmed Mary’s claims.

Police investigation revealed that Olatayo, a native of Omu-Aran in Kwara State “is a call girl who sees the baby as a disturbance to her business, hence she decided to do away with the baby.”

In the mean time, Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole has ordered the transfer of the suspects to the anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the State’s CIID for further investigation.

CP Bankole also directed that everything legal must be done to recover the sold baby.

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