NDLEA rescues five pregnant girls from suspected child traffickers

, have rescued five pregnant teenage girls said to be victims of child trafficking in Imo State, South-east Nigeria.

Mr Babafemi said the girls were intercepted while they were being relocated from their hideout in the Naze area to the Ikenegbu area – all in Owerri, the state capital, on Wednesday. The NDLEA, in its statement, mentioned the names of the five girls but PREMIUM TIMES could not publish them because of their underage status.The girls claimed they did not know the men who impregnated them, according to the statement.

The spokesperson said NDLEA operatives, in separate operations across Nigeria, intercepted and seized several illicit drug consignments at different airports and along some highways in the country.“Baby factory”, sometimes disguised as an orphanage, is a name given to a facility where traffickers hold women, mostly teenagers, against their will, rape and force them to get pregnant. The newborns at the facility are then sold illegally to adoptive parents.

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