My Boyfriend Impregnated Me, My MotherSold My Baby “17-Year-Old Girl

Seventeen-year-old Blessing Godspower, on
Wednesday narrated how her mother sold her
eight-month-old baby. The mother, Onyinyechi
Nwabueze, 38, was paraded by the police at
the ‘A’ Division of the Plateau State Police
Command.


Policemen from the division, led by the
Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Victor Dimkpa, a
Chief Superintendent of Police, had rescued
the baby, named Chiamaka, in Awka, the
Anambra State capital.

Blessing, who was staying with her mother at
Rukuba Road area of Jos North, was put in the
family way by her boyfriend, now no where to
be found.

After baby Chiamaka was delivered, Blessing’s
mother decided to get rid of the
baby. According to her, on July 19, her mother
sent her on a phony errand in order to effect
the “diabolical” act.
She said, “My mother sent me on an errand,
but when I came back I asked for my baby and
my mother asked, ‘which baby?’ She feigned
ignorance and at that point I started crying
and reported the incident to the Police.”
Police Commissioner, Mr. Chris Olakpe said,
“After the mother sent her daughter away, she
(Nwabueze) stopped a tricycle and took the
baby to the first receiver, one Eucharia
Anyaegbu. Anyaegbu transferred the baby to
the second receiver, Rita Maduako, who finally
sold the baby to 53-year-old unmarried
woman, Grace Nnadozie.”
Nnadozie, however, told our correspondent
that after she applied to an orphanage home
for a child without any result for the past two
years, she sought Anyaegbu’s help.

She said she gave N500,000 to Anyaegbu for
the baby. Anyaegbu gave N350, 000 to
Maduako. Maduako was to give N200,000 to
the baby’s grandmother.

But Nwabueze denied that she sold the baby.

She said her daughter was very wayward, so
she decided to give the baby out to somebody
else who would take proper care of her.

She said, “How can I sell my granddaughter.

My daughter is not capable of taking care of
the baby and I decided to give her to
somebody who will take proper care of her.”

Mrs Nwabueze however confessed that she
lost her husband in 2007 and since then, she
and the six children she had with him, had been
finding things difficult