Court sentences parents for selling 2-month-old baby for N300,000 | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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They both pleaded guilty to the offence and urged the court to temper justice with mercy. Nigeria

The convicts, who are residents of Idu, Karmo, Abuja, who were arraigned on a count charge of selling of minor for an unlawful purpose.Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Adama Musa told the court that one Insp. Nasiru Tukur attached to Railway Police Station, Idu, Karmo had reported the matter at Karmo Police Station on July 9.

According to Musa, Tukur broke the case opened when neighbours of the convicts came to make the complaint that their neighbours’ baby suddenly disappeared and when they asked the parents for the whereabouts of the baby, they could not offer any reasonable answers. The prosecutor further said that the neighbours at this point suspected that the parents had sold the baby.

He added that during police investigation, the convicts confessed that they sold their baby to one Chioma Ubor who is currently at large, for the sum of N300,000.The Chief Magistrate, Ahmed Ndajiwo therefore, sentenced the convicts, he, however, gave them the option to pay N3,000 each as fine.

 

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