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Police nab five women for selling three-year-old boy

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The Imo State Police Command has arrested five women for allegedly selling a three-year-old boy they abducted from a burial ceremony for N600,000 in Ngor Okpala local
government area of the state.
The women were identified as, Chinonye Okere, Joy Ama, Eucharia Amadi, Pauline Uzoam
aka, Pauline Uzoamaka and Nnenne Okere.Confessing to the crime, Okere, who claimed to have abducted the boy at a funeral ceremony alleged that a police officer simply identified as Felix, planned and executed the criminal act with her, Punch reports.
Okere claimed
 that her husband and one other persons she named to have taken part in the crime, Rose, were on the run.
The alleged buyer, 55-year-old Uzoamaka, said she bought the child for N600,000 from 54 year-old Mrs. Amadi in Nnewi, Anambra State in April.

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