23-year-old call girl sells baby for N600,000

A 23-year-old mother said to be a call girl identified as Mary Olatayo, has been arrested by men of the Ogun state police for selling her three-week-old baby for N600,000. She was arrested following a complaint from the father of the baby, at Mowe Divisional Police Headquarters, Ogun State.

The father of the baby had told the police that he had a relationship with her, which led to pregnancy and the baby in question.

The man disclosed that when Mary got pregnant, he rented an apartment for her where she lived till she gave birth to a baby boy and suddenly disappeared from the apartment three weeks after delivery

She was said to have relocated to a hotel, where she had gone for a ‘hook up’ with another man.

According to the Ogun police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, all efforts to locate the baby proved abortive.

Oyeyemi informed that the DPO of Mowe Division, SP Folake Afeniforo, acting on the report, detailed detectives to the scene, and the suspect was arrested.

While being interrogated, Oyeyemi said 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 her friend, Chioma Esther Ogbonna, who led her to the buyer in the state and that they both shared the money equally.”

CP Bankole also directed that everything legal must be done to recover the sold baby.