Why I Sold My 3-Weeks-Old Baby After Baby Daddy Took Care Of Me – Suspect
A 23-year-old Mary Olatayo have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly selling her three-week-old baby boy for N600,000.
According to a statement released on Thursday, by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, state Police Public Relations Officer, Olatayo was arrested after her baby daddy filed a complaint with the police.
The baby daddy said Olatoya whom he had rented an apartment for, vanished three weeks after giving. She was later found in a hotel where she went for a hook up with another man. On interrogation, Olatayo confessed to have sold the baby with the help of her friend to someone from Anambra state.
The statement read in part;
“The man said Mary got pregnant in the process and he rented an apartment for her where she lived till she delivered a baby boy. He explained 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 went to ‘hook-up’ with another man.
“All efforts to know the baby’s whereabouts proved futile. On the strength of his complaint, the Divisional Police Officer, 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 sold the baby to someone in Anambra State at the rate of N600,000. She confessed that it was her friend, Chioma Ogbonna, who led her to the buyer in Anambra State, and that they both shared the money equally.
“Her confession led to the arrest of Chioma 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 state.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, ordered the transfer of the suspects to Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the state Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation.
He also directed that everything possible must be done to recover the baby.
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