A 22 year-old woman, Seun Oladayo has been arrested by the Amotekun corps for selling her one day-old baby girl for N10,000 to a pastor in Ondo West Local Government Area, Ondo State.
According to Oladayo, an indigene of Abejoye in Ondo kingdom, she could not cater for the baby because one Mr. Tope the baby’s father, dumped her the day she told him that she was pregnant.
“I asked the Pastor to take the baby away and bring N10,000 because I don’t know how I am going to take care of the baby.” she confessed.
The pastor identified as Olawale, popularly called Eri Aditu, however reported the matter to Amotekun’s office in Ondo and the young woman was arrested.
He said the baby was given to him in a sack with the placenta by the mother who was desperate to sell her baby.
Pastor Olawale said; “I was told to bring N10,000, so that they can give the doctor N5,000 for his job and I did because if I did not, another person would come and buy the baby. “I went to the Amotekun to report the woman and she was handed over to Police at Area Commander Yaba in Ondo West Local Government Area.”
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