How 20-Year-Old Girl Was Caught Selling Her 2-Weeks Old Baby In Calabar
A 20-year-old girl, Maria Ekanem, has been arrested by the police in Calabar for selling her 2-weeks- old baby for 20,000 Naira.
According to Vanguard, Maria who was arrested with five other people stated that poverty and not having a place to stay after she gave birth made her sell her baby girl.
Maria stated that she would have aborted the baby when her asked her to but did not because a doctor helped her with free antenatal care and food until she gave birth. After giving birth she agreed to sell the baby when arrangements were made.
Maria was caught when Maria Elemi, whose parents Maria was living with after she delivered the baby learnt of her plans.
Elemi said: “When I came back from school on Monday, Maria told me she wanted to take the baby to the parents of the boy who impregnated her since she can no longer cope with taking care of the baby.
Elemi said when they got to Fuller by Inyang Street in Calabar South, Maria gave the girl to a matron who handed her over to the buyer in an SUV.
She said: “The woman gave Maria N20,000 and asked her to pay the nurse at the Evangel Clinic and use the rest for herself.”
Elemi became suspicious when the driver of the SUV told the woman with the baby that her husband said she should take her to the airport to catch a flight to Abuja .
Elempi said: “I started wondering why they should take the girl to the airport when the boyfriend to Maria and her parents live here in Calabar.
Paraded along with Maria were a 55-year-old medical doctor, Okokon Offiong Okoho, the proprietor of Evangel Clinic,of 2, Atu Street; a 70-year-old matron of Sadatoe Maternity located at Umoh Street and a nurse at the maternity who allegedly made the plans to sell the girl.
The Police stated that investigations were ongoing to capture the buyer of the girl who is now on the run.
Hmmm!
A human being for just 20000naira. She has to even pay someone out of the money sef hmmmmmm. May God help us. Amen.
if you can’t take care of a baby, why get pregnant in the first place
Hmm! 20k wey u go hold , u wont even know wen u spent it. D labour nor pepper u? Chai! Poverty. God have mercy on us.
How can a mother sell her own child? This is just bad!
What does a two weeks old eat other than breast milk?Will the 20k eradicate poverty from her life forever?mtcheeew She doesn’t have what to say
I’m jst speechless
God will punish that girl
Hmmmm,Ordinary 20k for a baby
Just for N20,000 she sold her child…Don’t know what this world is turning to
God help us
it is not even about being able to feed the child or cater for the child rather but the conscience… pple have sold their conscience that they forgot they can share even palm fruit with their child only for a while,look at her selling child for 20,000 that will finish in a month,probably God didnt give some people brain or conscience
Just 20k, dis is seriuos
why did you get pregnant if you know you cant take responsibilities on u?
Poverty for real, chai
What amount can buy motherhood?
for just 20k????Lol.she no try
Wonder shall never end
Some mothers sha get strong mind….for 20k? Haba
Poverty and ignorance has finished people’s lives.