A couple at the weekend were arrested on the orders of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, for buying a stolen baby for N150,000.
THISDAY gathered that the couple, whose identity was yet to be unveiled, had been unable to have children for years, so they opted for another option, albeit illegal.
Instead of going through the legal route to adopt a child, the couple planned and hatched their plot in connivance with a medical doctor.
Pretending to be pregnant, the woman alongside her husband deceived her relatives and neighbours on the authenticity of her pregnancy.
Upon reaching gestation period, they went to the hospital and carried another person’s baby, a two months-old baby, in connivance with the said doctor.
Confirming the incident, the state Commissioner of Police, Owoseni said when the couple were arrested, they accused a doctor of selling the baby to them.
He said: “They stole a two-months-old baby. She was never pregnant yet she claimed she had a baby. When we arrested her, they claimed the doctor gave them the baby.
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