Police Arrest Nurses For Selling New-Born Baby

Operatives of the Lagos state police command have apprehended two nurses working at Trinity Clinic, in the Meiran area of Lagos for allegedly selling a newborn baby.

Naija News understands that the nurses were arrested for allegedly selling the baby for N350,000 and allegedly deceived the mother of the baby to have had a stillbirth.

The nurses whose names were given as Marbel Onochel and Dorcas Omitogun were said to have sold the baby to one Helen Okoh, a resident of Ajah in Lagos, who has also been arrested.

The suspects were alleged to have told the baby’s parents that it died and they buried the stillborn to save the family the trauma.

Trouble, however, reportedly started after the woman’s family insisted that they wanted to see the body, but the suspects could not provide it.

It was gathered that when the family insisted on seeing the body, the nurses claimed that the baby’s head was bad, prompting the family to report at the police station.
The suspects were arrested and during an investigation and interrogation by the Lagos state Police, the accused confessed to have sold the baby to Mrs. Okoh.

It was gathered that Onochel kept N250,000 from the sale and gave Omitogun N100,000.

Upon interrogation, the woman who bought the baby said she was desperate for a child because she was unable to conceive, as she had been diagnosed of fibroid.

While confirming the arrest, the police spokesman Bala Elkana, said that the baby had been recovered from the buyer.

He said that the suspects will be charged to court after the investigations.

source https://www.naijanews.com/2019/03/25/police-arrest-nurses-for-selling-new-born-baby/