29-year-old Miss Chidimma Okorie from Amasiri, Ebonyi State, yesterday, stunned people at the headquarters of the Anambra State Police Command in Awka, when she revealed that she had already sold her unborn child for N100,000.
The unmarried mother of five also admitted to stealing two three-year-old boys at Umuoji in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, with the connivance of two medical doctors operating private hospitals in the area.
The two medical doctors, Emmanuel Tobechukwu and Cosmos Ugorji, who the police described as accomplices in child trafficking, were also helping the police in their investigations.
Chidimma according to the Vanguard said she had sold two children since she was introduced into the “business” by a woman she identified as an Evangelist.
Speaking she said, “I sold the two children for N50,000 each. I am pregnant and the madam (Evangelist) said when I deliver my baby, she would buy it for N100,000. I have five children, but I am not married. I have not sold any of my children, but I have sold two children, starting with the child of a pastor last month.”
She added that the two medical doctors who were helping her in the trafficking already had a ready market through a nurse, who is still at large.
She alleged that the Evangelist brought her along with two other girls from Ebonyi State to Anambra State and took them to a shrine in Asaba where their blood samples were collected for a ritual so that they would not reveal to anybody the type of business they were into.
However, Dr Ugorji insisted that he had neither seen her before nor done any transaction with her.
He maintained that one nurse, now at large, was coming to his hospital, located at Awada, Obosi, near Onitsha, for blood tests, adding that he was surprised when the police stormed his hospital and started talking about child trafficking.
On the other hand, Dr. Tobechukwu, who said his hospital was at Nkpor, near Onitsha, admitted that a woman brought Chidimma to his hospital for blood test.
He said: “This woman (Chidimma) has a medical condition, which I would not want to discuss here. She was brought by one woman, who said she was a nurse. I did not document their addresses because we did not do any treatment. What we did was blood test and they left.”
The doctor, who said he was from Enugu State, said he had nothing to do with child trafficking.
According to Mrs. Nkeiru Nwode, the Anambra Police Command Public Relations Officer the suspects were arrested on Wednesday, after a tip-off.
Nwode said Chidimma had come to Idoma village and stolen the boys, but luck ran out on her as people raised an alarm and she was apprehended.
The PPRO said before the latest incident, Chidimma had stolen a child belonging to a pastor in the area.
Nwode noted that the doctors were accomplices, who were linking the traffickers to ready markets.
Woman sells unborn child in Anambra
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