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Police arrest two women for stealing baby boy

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
Police arrest two women for stealing baby boy
Baby theft

Operatives of Ogun State Police command have arrested a 53-year-old woman, Chinyere Nwozu, for stealing a one week old baby boy.

She was arrested on July 25, 2022 at about 9 a.m. when she was seen with the baby who was crying but she could not breastfeed him as a mother.

Her inability to feed the baby, according to the spokesman of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, made some members of the public to suspect her and quickly alert the police at Sango Ota divisional headquarters.

Upon the information, the DPO Sango Ota, SP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to the scene where the woman was promptly arrested.

On interrogation, she confessed to the police that she was not the biological mother of the child but that she bought the child somewhere in Agege area of Lagos State through one Ngozi Akaeme at the rate of N500,000.

Upon her confession, detectives went after the said Ngozi Akaeme and got her arrested.

She confessed being an accomplice to Chinyere Nwozu, and that she actually negotiated with the biological mother of the baby who according to her agreed to sell the baby.

Efforts to make her accompany policemen to locate the real mother of the baby proved abortive.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has directed that the suspects be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible prosecution.

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