Teenager Steals Two Siblings To Raise Money For WASSCE Registration In Imo

Teenager Steals Two Siblings To Raise Money For WASSCE Registration In Imo

A 15-year-old girl, Precious Ehiedo, and two others, Juliet Ogben and
Favour Okoh, have been arrested by men of the operatives of the Imo
state police command for allegedly stealing and selling two siblings
between the ages of two and seven for N800,000.

While parading the suspects before newsmen and also handing one of
the recovered babies to the parents, the state Commissioner of Police,
Dasuki Galadanchi, said Precious stole the siblings, two-year-old
Chiemerem and seven-year-old Mmesoma Nwoke, in Ehime Mbano Local
Government Area of Imo State after following the advise of her parents
who refused to give her money for money to register for the West African
Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination WASSCE, when she asked.

Her parents had told her they had no money for her exam registration
and advised her to do what her ‘mates are doing’, steal children, sell
them and make money.

“On November 13 at around 9am, one Precious Ehiedo, 15, daughter of
Mr and Mrs Romeo and Uchechi Ehiedo, resident at Ogbuaku in Mbaitoli LGA
of Imo State but natives of Abraka in Delta State, requested from her
parents money for the SSCE registration. Her parents told her to go and
steal children for them to sell in order to raise money for her
examination. Being familiar with the two children at her maternal home,
Umuezeala Ama, in Ehime Mbano LGA of Imo State, she stole the children.

“The girl and her father left for Mbano, but the father stopped at
the Amaraku Market square, waiting for his daughter to hand over the
children, who he had instructed her to steal. The 15-year-old met the
children playing, stole them and joined her father at the Amaraku Market
and both left with the children to Ogbaku. The children were sold to
one Mama Joy at the rate of N800,000. Mama Joy, with one Favour Okoh,
resold one of the children to one Juliet Ogbor for N750,000.”

Galadanchi said the police immediately commenced investigation and
was able to recover one of the children, Chiemerem, on December 15th at
Agbor in Delta State.

One of the recovered children with her parents in the photo above.

The police boss added that the suspects would be arraigned in court soon.