Third and Fourth Nigeria Baby Factories Discovered in Past Two Years

See our first case here and the second case here.

“Nigerian police have found six pregnant teenage girls in a raid on a house and arrested three people suspected of planning to sell their babies.

The discovery makes this the second so-called baby-factory uncovered in a week in the west African nation.

“We acted on intelligence information and raided the house in Enugu (city) where we met six girls — under 17 and all pregnant — and freed them,” said police spokesman Ebere Amaraizu.

He said two men and a woman believed to be operating a child-trafficking ring were arrested during the raid on Monday and were cooperating with police.

Amaraizu said the girls had been “lured into the house with a promise of some money after” delivering a child.

“Investigations will unravel the details. We have to know how they came about the pregnancy and where they came from,” he said.

Monday’s raid came five days after police in the nearby Imo state freed 17 pregnant girls and 11 small children from a home in the town of Umuaka.

The girls, aged between 14 and 17, told police that they had been impregnated by a 23-year-old man who is currently in custody.

The owner of the building is on the run.

Nigerian police have uncovered a series of alleged baby factories in recent years, notably in the southeastern part of the country, but the intended buyers of the children have not been established.

According to the United Nations cultural organisation (UNESCO) human trafficking, including the selling of children, is the third most common crime in Nigeria behind fraud and drug-trafficking.”

Police discover ‘baby factory’

[eNCA 5/15/13]

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