Posted on 05/10/2013 6:43:34 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
Nigerian police have rescued 17 pregnant teens from what’s being called a baby factory in the southeastern part of the country.
Imo State Police revealed they are also arrested a 23-year-old man believe to have impregnated the girls. Police also rescued 11 babies and small children from the Ahamefula Motherless Babies Home, in the community of Umuaka.
BBC reports police spokeswoman Joy Elomoko saying “The girls claimed they were fed once a day and were not allowed to leave the home.”
Elomoko also told AFP their babies were going to be sold to “willing buyers.”
According to BBC, Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons said in 2011 babies can be sold for as much as US $6,400 –for illegal adoption, child labour or prostitution, or in some cases to be sacrificed for ritual purposes.
AllAfrica.com reported on Thursday all of the girls are between the ages of 14 and 17 and were at different stages in their pregnancies. At the time of the raid, at least 11 children were set to be sold, the website reported.
The alleged owner of the Ahamefula Motherless Babies Home, known as Madame One Thousand, is still at large.
Police said they received a credible tip about the home.
In the spring of 2011, Nigerian authorities saved 32 girls from another baby factory at a hospital in the city of Aba, also in the southeastern part of the country.
In October of that year, another 17 girls were taken away from another baby trafficking operation in Ihiala, Anambra state.
UNICEF said there were 757 women rescued from trafficking operations and rehabilitated, between 2004 and 2006.
and some are concerned with puppy mills.
Dear God...
Baby factories? Isn’t that what they call welfare?
Well..that kind of puts a damper on the whole “African Natives are pure primitives “...keep calling yourself African Americans cause you got so much in Africa to be proud of!
I don't think mass kidnapping and rape is the same as welfare.
Slavery, 21st century style
IS that the one where the family claimed they actually never gave the baby up for adoption?
Colombus’ men saved some pregnant Arawak Indian women from cages where they were kept by Carib Indian captives.
Is seems the Caribs liked to cook and eat new born babies much like we do with suckling pig.
Libs now hate Colombus yet they won’t emigrate to Europe on a permanent basis.
You know... I have become desensitized to much of the vile degrading things humans do to each other...
But this really kind of shocks me....a sub human piece of fifth setting up baby mills...for profit....using under aged young teenagers to exploit...
"Leave my mother alone."
One of the dangers of international adoption.
As incredible as it may seem, willing foreigners coming to pay fees and etc. to adopt “a child in need” can create a terrible industry.
Adopters beware. Things aren’t always as they appear.
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