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Police uncover hospital in Rivers where medical personnel steal live babies from new moms and present an embalmed de@d baby to them as theirs
The police in Rivers state have uncovered a hospital where child trafficking occurs in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
According to the police, on June 12, operatives of the Force Intelligence Department stormed the facility after receiving intelligence about xrime being committed in the facility.
The police say some mothers had come forward to express doubts over the hospital’s claims that the babies they delivered in the facility passed away.
The police then sent in undercover officers who were able to expose the crime being committed in the facility. According to the police, babies ddelivered at the hospital were secretly taken away and trafficked, while the mothers were deceive into believing that their newborns d!ed during childbirth.
During the raid at the hospital, a bucket with an embalmed baby was discovered in the medical director, 66-year-old, Elizabeth Obot’s office.
The police say the embalmed de@d child is presented to mothers as their de@d babies.
Investigations showed that the de@d baby was also rented to other trafficking networks or to any woman who may want to use a de@d child to deceive her family.
When interrogated, the medical director of the hospital, Elizabeth Obot, who has no license to operate, said
‘’In 2020, one of those women who had issues with the police came and asked if I had a de@d child, and at the time, I had one. So I told her, she collected it and gave me N10,000.
I can charge the person who wants to buy the child N3m. If the person pays, the social mother will get her N2.5m, while the difference is what I use for logistics.
The de@d child is actually a product of miscarriage. The husband was not around, and when we called him and told him we needed to dispose of the baby, he said okay and asked us to go ahead. I charged him some money, and he paid, but somehow I did not dispose of the baby”
She mentioned that the dead baby was used to help women with fake pregnancies who are being pressured by their partners to give them a child. Obot said such women stage a fake pregnancy, and when it is time to deliver, they pretend they lost the baby and present the de@d child to their partners.
She denied any wrongdoing. According to her, she has only been helping desperate women seeking the fruit of the womb. She said the women who come to her to sell their babies do so voluntarily.
One of the suspects, Uffiong Ubong Anthony, revealed that she is not a professional nurse but only learnt how to serve as an auxiliary nurse by studying the activities of nurses in a private hospital. She said she has served as an untrained nurse for 21 years.
The police have asked anyone who had a stillbirth in the facility to come forward to help with the investigation. The police advised women to always ensure they have a relative inside the delivery ward to monitor their child after delivery. The police also advised pregnant women to always ensure that their delivery wards have protectors on the window. According to the police, investigations have shown that delivery wards without windows help the criminal-minded hospital staff easily steal babies from their delivery rooms.
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