17-year-old boy impregnates 10 ladies in Rivers

The Rivers State Police Command has apprehended a 17-year-old boy, identified as Noble Uzuchi over the impregnation of 10 ladies.

Congress gathered that the suspect was arrested alongside his accomplice, Chigozie Ogbonna, a 29-year-old man in the penultimate week.

The police authorities revealed that the two suspects and two other ladies, Favour Bright, 30; and Peace Alikoi, 40 were allegedly running a baby factory.

The Rivers Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Grace Iringe-Koko said the arrests were carried out following a tip-off.

Iringe-Koko stressed that the 10 pregnant ladies had been rescued by officers after the raid and arrest of the suspects.

The statement read, “On Saturday, January 7, 2023, around 4.45 pm, while acting on credible intelligence available to the Rivers State Police Command, C4I Intelligence Unit operatives raided two houses at Igwuruta and Omagwa communities respectively, where victims of child trafficking were being kept.

“The victims rescued in the operation are 10, most of them pregnant,” Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police said in the statement.

The police PPRO explained that when a victim delivered her baby, the syndicate leader kept the child and paid her a sum of N500,000 and that some of the babies previously delivered in the houses had been sold.

“All the victims confessed that they were lured to the illicit sales of children because of the need to meet some financial challenges. A Honda Pilot Jeep, white, was recovered from the syndicate leader.”

She hinted that the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation and possible prosecution of the suspects.

However, efforts are underway to track and arrest the buyers of the children already sold to answer for their crimes.