Mariam Ekanem, a 20-year-old school drop out from Odukpani
Local Government Area of Cross River State, said yesterday in Calabar
that poverty and lack of where to stay after she gave birth made her
sell her two weeks old baby girl for N20,000.
According to Vanguard, Maria, who was arrested by the police along
five other accomplices, said her boyfriend who got her pregnant, asked
her to abort the baby but said a doctor helped her with free antenatal
care and food until she gave birth.
This, she added, prompted her to agree to sell the baby when arrangements were made to sell.
Paraded along with Maria were a 55-year-old medical doctor, Okokon
Offiong Okoho, the proprietor of Evangel Clinic,of 2, Atu Street; a
70-year-old matron of Sadatoe Maternity located at Umoh Street and a
nurse at the maternity who allegedly made the plans to sell the girl to
an Abuja-based lady who is now on the run.
However, plans to sell the two weeks old girl was leaked to the
police by a Senior Secondary Two girl of NYSC Demonstration Secondary
School, Calabar , Maria Elemi, whose parents Maria was living with after
she delivered the baby.
“When I came back from school on Monday, Maria told me
she wanted to take the baby to the parents of the boy who impregnated
her since she can no longer cope with taking care of the baby,” she
said.
Maria said when they got to Fuller by Inyang Street in Calabar South,
they met Mrs Elemi and her daughter in an SUV car, adding that Maria
gave the girl to the matron who handed her over to the buyer.
She said: “The woman gave Maria N20,000 and asked her to pay the nurse at the Evangel Clinic and use the rest for herself.”
The girl said she became suspicious when the driver of the SUV told
the woman with the baby that her husband said she should take her to the
airport to catch a flight to Abuja .
“I started wondering why they should take the girl to the
airport when the boyfriend to Maria and her parents live here in
Calabar,” Maria stated.
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