A 23-year-old call girl, Mary Olatayo, has been nabbed by the men of the Ogun State Police Command for selling her three weeks old baby at the rate of six hundred thousand naira.
Olatayo was said to have shared a sum of N300, 000 with a friend and an accomplice, Chioma Esther Ogbonna who aided the sale of the baby boy in Anambra State.
According to the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the arrest, followed a complaint of the father of the baby to the police authority.
The father, according to Oyeyemi, a Superintendent of Police, had reported the matter at Mowe divisional headquarters that, Mary disappeared from a rented apartment three weeks after delivering the baby.
He reportedly met Mary sometimes ago, they started dating which led to the pregnancy.
“He stated further that, Mary got pregnant in the process and he rented an apartment for her where she lived till she delivered a baby boy.
“He complained further that the lady suddenly disappeared with the baby from the apartment 3 weeks after delivery, only for her to be found in an hotel where she has gone for a ‘hook up’ with another man. All efforts to know the whereabouts of the baby proved futile.
“On the strength of his complaint, the DPO 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 had sold the baby to someone in Anambra state at the rate of six hundred thousand naira.
“She confessed that it was her friend, Chioma Esther 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 Esther Ogbonna who also corroborated Mary’s claims,” the police spokesperson said.
Further investigation, according to the PPRO, revealed that Olatayo, a native of Omu- aran in Kwara state, was a call girl, who saw 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 Anambra state.”
The State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, the PPRO said, has ordered the transfer of the suspects to anti human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation Departments for further investigation.
The CP also directed that everything possible must be done to recover the baby.
