A young woman, Chinedu Chukwu, has been arrested by the police for abducting and selling a four-year-old a primary school pupil who is the daughter of her sister.
The girl, Chinecherem Irechukwu, a pupil of Unity Primary School in Inyi, a community in Enugu, was declared missing on December 15, 2016 after she did not return from school.
The police spokesperson, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the development, said after the police was notified about the missing girl, the case was referred to Gender/Anti-Human Trafficking Section of the state Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department (SCID).
In the course of investigation, it was discovered that the younger sister of Chinecherem’s mother identified as Chinedu and her boyfriend, Chinonso Osunkwo, travelled down from Anambra State, where they reside, to abduct Chinecherem from her school.
It was further learnt that Chinedu and her boyfriend took Chinecherem to Ihe-Olokoro, a town in Umuahia, Abia State, where the little girl was sold to one Florence Nwokocha for a price of N350,000.
Chinedu and her boyfriend confessed to the crime after arrest and led the police to Florence, who was equally arrested.
The girl was subsequently recovered on January 16, 2017 and reunited with her parents.
Amaraizu added that the police are still on the trail of an unnamed person, who harboured Chinecherem in Aba.
The mother of the girl expressed appreciation to the police for the recovery of her daughter, said she was shocked that her own sister could mastermind the abduction and sale of her daughter.
“I never believed that my immediate younger sister could do such a thing to me,” the woman said.
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