The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has
recovered a baby boy, David Johnny, who was stolen by a doctor with the
connivance of his mother, Esther Johnny, and sold to a woman in Abuja.
It was learnt that the mother initially
denied knowledge of the crime as the police intensified efforts to unravel the
whereabouts of the baby.
The Assistant Commissioner of Police, State
Criminal Investigation Department, Akwa Ibom State, Mike Okoli, said this in
Uyo on Tuesday.
He stated that when the police apprehended
the doctor, he tried to frustrate police investigation into the matter.
He added that the police had to tell the
doctor that they would charge him to court for child kidnapping if he failed to
produce the missing child.
The CP said, “The police in Akwa Ibom State
have rescued a baby boy, David Johnny, who was stolen when he was three-day-old
and handed over to a doctor in Port Harcourt. The baby was subsequently taken
to Abuja.
“When we found the doctor, he refused to
cooperate as he tried to frustrate the efforts of the police in investigating
the case of the stolen boy.
“My officers in the trafficking department
moved from Uyo to Port Harcourt, Umuahia, and Aba in search of the stolen
child.
“It was not until Wednesday, April 22, when
the pressure became so much, that the woman who had bought the child, took the
child back to the clinic in Port Harcourt, where she bought him, and abandoned
him there,” he said.
According to him it was the phone call the
woman, who had bought the child, made to the doctor who was in the police
custody in Uyo that enabled them to trace the baby to the hospital.
He said, “The biological mother sold the
child through the doctor to the woman for N300,000.”
Esther, 18, said David was her third baby and
she could not take care of all of her children.
She said she was given N150,000 from the
proceeds from the sale of her baby.
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