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17-yr-old sells child for N500,000, paid N30,000

HER desperation to get rid of the
unwanted child led her to trade off the first fruits of her womb to a couple who also have been waiting desperately for a fruit of the womb for over six years.

17 year old Tessy Obianua, a secondary school drop-out ate the "forbidden fruit"and was made pregnant by one of her acquaintances, Shola.
The shame led her to eloped when the pregnancy was five months old and the protruding tummy was becoming a source of embarrassment for her and her parents at their Ogbese camp in Akure North area of Ondo State.

Without the knowledge of her parents Mr and Mrs Henry Obianua, Tessy left with another man Jude Azuka for Onitsha, to escape the prying eyes of neighbours and others who may jest of her.

The father was said to have been
flabbergasted when Tessy who
disappeared with the five month old
pregnancy re-surfaced after nine months without a baby which was the evidence of the pregnancy.

Meanwhile, when Tessy disappeared, the father had lodged a complaint via a petition at the Police station that her pregnant daughter was missing and detectives were deployed to smoke her out with the pregnancy.
But a Police source hinted that Jude who was a neighbour of Tessy's parents seized the opportunity of her condition to lure her to Onitsha where he promised to link her to a " good Samaritan "that will take care of her, the pregnancy and even the baby after birth.

Tessy was ferried to Onitsha and put in the custody of Mrs Chibuzor Okoye who housed her until she gave birth to a baby girl which she also helped her nurse.
Unknown to Tessy that Jude was one of the agents of Mrs Okoye who is a child traffickers, she was reportedly given special treatment throughout her stay with the Mrs Okoye at No 3 Tonny Olisa street Awada in Onitsha.
When she was put in the picture of what would be the fate of her "unwanted child" Tessy according to the Police source had no choice than to agree with them.

While Tessy and the little baby were
enjoying the luxury provided by Mrs
Okoye, a deal had been struck on how much a desperate couple who had been looking for a baby was willing to pay on her. Police source told Vanguard that a drama ensued when the couple came to the house of Mrs Okoye to collect the baby after the payment of N500,000.

Tessy was said to have put up a fight,
vowing she would not let go her baby
and it reportedly took the intervention of Jude who brought her to Onitsha before she allowed the couple Mr and Mrs Sunday Kalu to go with her. Sensing that
Tessy may have a re-think and probably want to make trouble, they suggested to both Jude and Mrs Okoye that she (Tessy) should sign an undertaking that she would never come back for the baby.
After that was done, the baby was taken away and Tessy was settled with N30,000 cash while some new clothes and shoes were equally bought for her from the
sale of her baby girl.

But the 17-year old girl in an interview denied having knowledge of the whole transaction saying she was handed N30,000 after she discovered that her baby had disappeared while she was asleep. She said that she later learnt
from Jude that N500,000 was collected by them from a couple in need of a baby.

Tessy said when she was paraded alongside with four other suspects of the child trafficking and the couple that Mrs Okoye and Jude should
be held responsible for the disappearance of her baby.
She said because she was not in support of the sale of the baby that was why she exposed the child trafficker to her uncle who informed the police and she was arrested.

The story told by Mrs Okoye differed as she said that Tessy was lying and that she was handed over her share of the money while Jude also
collected his share. She said that N200,000 was given to Jude out of the sales while she took #300,000.
The burble reportedly burst when Tessy after she re-surfaced didn't come with a baby and the father became suspicious and raised alarm.

she later confessed that their neighbour, Jude and one Mrs Okoye sold her baby girl to a couple in Onitsha, Anambra state.

Detectives later traced both Mrs Okoye and Jude to Onitsha where they were both apprehended and brought back to Akure, the Ondo State capital.

The five suspects are presently cooling their heels at the Criminal Investigation Bureau CID division of the state police command. We learnt that the couple were later arrested at their No. 8 Uzogwu street Onitsha.

Child trafficking The Police Image Maker Femi Joseph confirmed the incident saying that the child trafficker and four others are in
their custody undergoing interrogation. Joseph said "through investigation to Onisha, the police arrested Okoye,who specialized in child trafficking at No. 3, Tonny Olisa Street Awada in Onitsha
"It was Okoye, who sold the baby girl to the couple at No. 8, Uzogwu street
Onitsha for the sum of N500,000.
"She claimed to have given Jude the sum of N200,000 out of which Jude claimed to have bought clothes and shoes for Tessy and also gave her N30,000 cash.
"Mrs Okoye thereafter forced Tessy, to sign an undertaking that she would never come back for the baby."
The suspects, according to him, would be charged to court after their
investigations."

•Some of suspected child traffickers in Ondo; including Mrs. Chibuzor Okoye.

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