BUSTED! Female Child Abductor Apprehended In Lagos

A woman, who is yet to be identified, has confessed to being part of a 27-woman syndicate from Benin Republic after narrowly escaping death at the hands of an angry mob on Monday.

According to Vanguard, the mob attacked the woman when she was caught trying to abduct a child at Aka Road, Okokomaiko area of Lagos, on Monday morning.

The suspect said, “We were 27 women that came as a syndicate from Benin Republic. Each woman was given five phones to contact their buyers once the targets, mainly little children, were found. We then discard the phone after transactions to avoid being traced. The abduction is for outright sale, not for a ransom.”

She was often seen in the area behaving like a mad woman, but when she was caught, she acted sane, sources say.

Vanguard sources say that there have been about seven children reported missing from Okokomaiko and its environs in the last two months. Another female child abductor was caught a few days ago attempting to kidnap a child. According to sources, the said female child abductor had successfully kidnapped one and was in the middle of the second kidnap when she was seen. She was arrested by the police but she unfortunately could not return the first child.

A resident in the area, Omowummi Ireti, told Vanguard, “In the last one year, the trend of women kidnapping children has been on the increase. Fortunately, some of the women involved have been caught in recent times and they are always rescued from the mob and whisked away by the police. But the sad thing is that nothing is ever heard of the outcome again. If the Nigerian Police is a serious outfit, one of such ‘arrests’ is enough lead to get to the root of this syndicate and crack it.”

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