Pregnant Women Freed from Nigerian "Baby Factory"



The evils of human trafficking knows no limits.  In the Nigerian city of Lagos, local police recently freed 19 pregnant women and four infants from a human trafficking ring.  This ring was created specifically for the purpose of breeding and selling infant children.  These women, ages 15-28, were lured into believing that they were being offered jobs as domestic help.  Once in the traffickers hands, they were taken away, imprisoned, and repeatedly raped.  

trafficked, pregnant, Nigeria

The traffickers used female accomplices to lure women with the promise of employment.  Once meeting them, these women took their victims to a breeding center, where they were kept under lock & key and were repeatedly raped by different men in order to be impregnated.  Once these victims gave birth their children were taken away and sold off.    Police report that infant boys were sold for $1630 and girls for $980.  Some of the women were induced to go into labor when they were only seven months pregnant so their infants could be sold more quickly and the mother raped & impregnated again.  A number of these infants died as a result.  

Sadly, these kinds of "baby factories" are spread throughout the country of Nigeria (Video).  Some of the children are sold to parents who want to adopt (though many of these parents are not aware of where these children are coming from) while others are kept and later sold by the traffickers to work in forced labor in other areas of Africa, or even Europe.  It is a terrible epidemic throughout the country and shows that human trafficking is a world wide problem, and it's an evil that knows no bounds.  

Sources:

Adebayo, Bukola.  "Nineteen Pregnant Teens and Women Rescued from Suspected Baby Traffickers in Nigeria, Police Say."  CNN.  Sept. 30, 2019.  Accessed from:  https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/africa/nigeria-police-rescue-pregnant-women-from-traffickers/index.html

Fiano-Chesser, Cassy.  "Rescued: Trafficked Pregnant Women Freed from 'Baby Factory' in Nigeria.  Live Action.  Oct. 24, 2019.  Accessed from https://www.liveaction.org/news/rescued-trafficked-pregnant-freed-baby-nigeria/

"Nigerian Police Free 19 Pregnant Women & Girls from 'Baby Factory.'"  AfricaNews.  Accessed from https://www.africanews.com/2019/10/01/nigerian-police-free-19-pregnant-women-girls-from-baby-factory//


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