A 23-year-old lady, Mary Olatayo, has landed in police net for allegedly selling her three-week-old baby to a buyer in Anambra State for N600,000.
Olatayo, who was described by the police as a call girl, was said to have had an affair with the father of the baby who got an apartment for her during pregnancy but she disappeared after carrying out the dastardly deed.
A statement by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun State Police Command’s spokesman, said the father of the baby lodged a complaint at the Mowe Divisional Headquarters that the suspect was initially nowhere to be found but was later seen with a man at a hotel.
“On the strength of his complaint, the DPO Mowe Division, SP Folake Afeniforo, detailed detectives to the scene where the suspect was arrested and brought to the station.
“On interrogation, Mary Olatayo confessed to the Police that she has sold the baby to someone in Anambra State at the rate of six hundred thousand naira. She confessed that it was her friend Chioma Esther Ogbonna who led her to the buyer in Anambra state and that they both shared the money equally.
“Her confession led to the arrest of Chioma Esther Ogbonna who also corroborated Mary’s claims.
“Further investigation revealed that Mary Olatayo, a native of Omu-Aran in Kwara State, is a call girl who sees the baby as a disturbance to her business hence she decided to do away with the baby. Fortunately for her, she has an accomplice in Chioma, a native of Imo State who quickly contacted the buyer in Anambra State,” the statement explained.
Oyeyemi added that the matter had been transferred to the Anti-human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Departments while the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had also directed that the missing baby must be rescued.