Sex Is Sweet But Not For This 8 Pregnant Girls Arrested In A Baby Factory Producing Babies For Cash Even Without Knowing Who Impregnates Them

Eight pregnant young girls were rescued yesterday by the Ogun State police command from a baby factory located at 9 Sebanjo Crescent, off Fabolude Busstop, Akute area of Ifo LGA of Ogun State.

Speaking on the incident, the State Police Commissioner, Ikemifuna Okoye, said police intervention was made possible by a tip off. The operator of the baby factory is 26 year old Angela Chigoeze who says she operates a herbal clinic...and sells the babies for N300,000

 

The police say investigation is still ongoing as there are other accomplices in the business.

Another source 
Nigerian police said on Saturday they had raided a home near Lagos where eight pregnant girls were staying with plans to sell each of their newborns for nearly $2 000.

"Following intelligence report, we discovered and stormed on Friday a baby factory in Akute district of Ogun state," a police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told AFP.

In the home they found the suspected operator and eight pregnant girls, most of them under the age of 20, he said.

It is the latest discovery of a so-called 'baby factory' and the first known case in southwest Nigeria.

The Guardian newspaper in Lagos published on its front page Saturday a picture of the eight girls, showing their protruding bellies.

"The girls confessed that each newborn child will be sold for 300000 naira ($1 800)," Oyeyemi said, adding that the suspects will be charged in court with crimes at the end of the current investigations.

Friday's raid brings to about 125 the number of girls the police have rescued since 2011 in 'baby factories', most of which were located in south-eastern states of the country.

Human trafficking epidemic

Southeast Nigeria is grappling with a human trafficking epidemic, with a series of black market maternity homes discovered in the last two years.

In most cases, young women have run to such homes to avoid the stigma attached to pregnancies conceived outside marriage.

They take a portion of the money earned from selling the baby.

The buyers are most often couples who have been unable to conceive and male children typically earn a much higher price than baby girls.

Human trafficking is widespread in West Africa, where children are bought from their families to work in plantations, mines and factories or as domestic help.

Others are sold into prostitution, and less commonly they are tortured or sacrificed in black magic rituals.