Mum Sells Baby For 300,000 In Akwa Ibom

A baby boy, David Johnny, was sold to a woman in Abuja for 300,000 Naira by a doctor and his 18-year-old mum, Esther Johnny. He was recently recovered by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command. Esther reportedly got 150,000 Naira from her baby’s sale.

Punch reports;

The Assistant Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department, Akwa Ibom State, Mike Okoli, said in Uyo on Tuesday that, “The police in Akwa Ibom State have rescued a baby boy, David Johnny, who was stolen when he was three-day-old and handed over to a doctor in Port Harcourt. The baby was subsequently taken to Abuja.

When we found the doctor, he refused to cooperate as he tried to frustrate the efforts of the police in investigating the case of the stolen boy.

My officers in the trafficking department moved from Uyo to Port Harcourt, Umuahia, and Aba in search of the stolen child.

It was not until Wednesday, April 22, when the pressure became so much, that the woman who had bought the child, took the child back to the clinic in Port Harcourt, where she bought him, and abandoned him there.”

According to him the phone call the woman who bought the child made to the doctor who was in the police custody in Uyo enabled them trace the baby to the hospital.

He said, “The biological mother sold the child through the doctor to the woman for N300,000.”

Esther, 18, said David was her third baby and she could not take care of all of her children.

She said she was given N150,000 from the proceeds from the sale of her baby.