33-Year-Old Woman Sells 18-Month-Old Daughter To Settle Bank Loan

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A 33 years old woman, Olaide Adekunle has been apprehended by Ogun State Police Command for allegedly selling her 18 months old baby at the N600,000 to settle a bank debt

According to a statement issued by the State Police Command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested after a complain was lodged at Sango divisional headquarters by the woman’s husband, Nureni Rasaq.

The mother of the baby, Olaide Adekunle, as reported by her husband went to Lagos on March 15, 2023, with their baby girl, Moridiat Rasaq, and came back home without her.

Nureni Rasaq, however, told the police that all efforts to know what happened to the baby was not successful as his wife refused to give clear account of where she kept their child.

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The statement reads in part, “Upon the report, the DPO Sango division, CSP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to go after the said woman, and she was arrested.

“On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she has sold the baby to someone in Lagos at the rate of six hundred thousand naira (N600,000)”.

“When asked the reason for her action, she stated that she borrowed money from a microfinance bank, and when she was unable to pay back the money, the bank agents started dragging her and threatening to deal decisively with her”

“It was consequence upon this that she ran to Lagos and started hawking sachet water”.

“It was while hawking that she met a man who introduced her to the woman that eventually bought the child in Lagos”.