Tuesday 23 August 2016

Woman who steals and sells children Arrested

Chidinma Favour Okorie has been apprehended by the police in Anambra state.She specializes in stealing children and selling them for =N=50,000 to her customers.

Daily post reports that the commissioner of Police SAM Okaula made this known in Anambra state while parading some suspected criminals. According to the commissioner, the woman was arrested on Wednesday, August 2, 2016, while trying to escape with a child she stole at Udoma village, in Idemili North Local Government Area.


In her confession,she says : Usually I come from Ebonyi State to Anambra State to steal children and sell each one for N50,000 to a syndicate at a hospital (name withheld) in Onitsha." “Luck ran out on me when I went to Udoma village in Umuoji community and I met a woman who was with her little child, and pretended that I was looking for somebody." “The mother of the boy told her son to take me to the place and from there I took him away." “I did the same thing in another street, where I wanted to take another three-year old before the mother of the victim alerted the community and the police and the two stolen three-year old boys were rescued.

" I am a married and have five children. We live at Amasiri, Afikpo Ebonyi State. I am a trader but it was greed that made me go into child trafficking.I started on July 15, 2016, when I sold the son of a pastor (name withheld) to the staff of a hospital that is part of the syndicate." “The doctor that owns the hospital paid me N50, 000." "Immediately I got my money I went back to Ebonyi State, she said, adding that a certain unnamed doctor who runs a hospital in Asaba, Delta State, administered a deadly oath on her never to disclose the truth when arrested."

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