The Police is now looking for the person who bought the three weeks old baby of Mary Olatayo, a 23-year old lady, now in police net for selling her baby for six hundred thousand naira.
According to SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Mary Olatayo was arrested following a complaint from the father of the baby who reported at Mowe Police Divisional Headquarters that he met Mary Olatayo sometimes ago and they started dating each other.
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 that Mary disappeared suddenly 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 hookup with another man.
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 has sold the baby to someone in Anambra state at the rate of six hundred thousand naira.
She confessed that it was a friend, Chioma Esther Ogbonna who led her to the buyer in Anambra state and that they shared the money equally.
Her confession led to the arrest of Chioma Esther 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 Anambra state.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, 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.
