Ogun: Lady arrested for selling 3-week-old baby for N600,000

A 23 year-old lady, Mary Olatayo, has been arrested by men of Ogun state police command for allegedly selling her three weeks old baby for six hundred thousand naira only.

The command’s spokesperson, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement made available to Blueprint Thursday, stated that the suspect was arrested following a complain by the father of the baby at Mowe divisional headquarters.

The father reported that sometimes ago and he started dating Mary, which led to her being pregnant for him. In the process he rented an apartment for her where she lived till she delivered of a baby boy. 

He complained further that the lady suddenly disappeared with the baby from the apartment 3 weeks after delivery only for her to be found in an hotel where she has gone for a ‘hookup’ with another man. 

All efforts to know where the baby is proved futile as at the time of filing this report.

“On the strength of his complaint, the DPO Mowe division, SP Folake Afeniforo, detailed detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested and brought to the station. 

“On interrogation, Mary 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 Anambra state and that they both shared the money equally. 

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

“Further investigation revealed that, Mary Olatayo a native of Omu- aran in Kwara state is a call girl, who see the baby as a disturbance to her business hence she decided to do away with the baby.

“Fortunately for her, she has an accomplice in Chioma a native of Imo state who quickly contacted the buyer in Anambra state”, the statement reads.

Meanwhile, the commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspects to anti human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation Departments for further investigation. 

The CP also directed that everything possible must be done to recover the baby.