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THE MEN OF THE LAGOS STATE POLICE HAVE TAKEN seven additional pregnant victims of another Lagos baby factory into custody, a week after rescuing twenty three pregnant victims of same ill fate. The victims, who among was an underage girl of 13 years old, were found loitering Cele Bus stop, along the Oshodi Apapa Expressway, after escaping from captivity of the baby factory. They were found unkempt, tired and stranded in the area. Investigation revealed that victims had originally come from Imo, Abia and Rivers states. Their captors had deceived them, promising them employment and better livelihood in Lagos. The 13 years old among them divulged to the police that she was raped while she was in her village and had become pregnant. While she was living through her confusion and plight, she was approached by some people who had promised to cater for her and her unborn baby in Lagos, ignorant that the plan was to take her baby from her and sell. Once they found out the true intention of t

NINETEEN YOUNG PREGNANT WOMEN AND FOUR CHILDREN were rescued by the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday, 19th September 2019 from four different baby factories at Ayanwale, Ikotun area of Lagos during a clandestine raid. The baby factories were believed to be owned and operated by one madam Oluchi, an indigene of Imo state who was a resident of Lagos state. However, she is still at large, while two suspects, Happiness and Sherifat Ipeya, her subordinates, were apprehended in the raid. Police sources revealed that the victims were from Rivers, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Abia and Imo states, and that they had been deceived with the promise of better livelihood and domestic jobs in Lagos. After relocating them to Lagos, they had been held against their wills, raped and impregnated. Their unborn babies were to be sold to potential buyers who would pay up to N500,000 for a male gender and N300,000 for a female gender, once the babies were born. Also rescued in the operation wer