Ogun Woman Sells Three-Week-Old Baby For N600,000

The Ogun State Police Command has nabbed Mary Olatayo, 23, for reportedly selling her three-week-old kid for N600,000, BRANDNEWSDAY learnt.

The police public relations officer for the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this known in a statement on Thursday.

Oyeyemi claims that the suspect was held after the father of the child lodged a complaint.

BRANDNEWSDAY gathered that the father reported the event to Mowe divisional headquarters after getting to know Mary Olatayo and starting a relationship, according to the PPRO.

“The man further revealed that Mary became pregnant throughout the procedure and he rented an apartment for her where she remained till she gave birth to a baby boy,” the speaker said.

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“He complained further that the lady suddenly disappeared with the baby from the apartment three weeks after delivery only for her to be found in a hotel where she has gone for a hookup with another man.

“All efforts to know where the baby is proved futile.
“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 and that they both shared the money equally.

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“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.”

According to the PPRO, the state’s criminal investigation departments’ anti-human trafficking and child labor unit will receive the suspects for additional examination after Lanre Bankole, the commissioner of police, ordered their transfer.

He said, “The CP also directed that everything possible must be done to recover the baby.”