47 Children Rescued From A Baby Factory

47 Children Rescued From A Baby Factory

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In Ile-Ife, Osun State police have rescued an undergraduate and 47 children from a baby factory camouflaged as an Orphanage.

The state government has sealed the baby factory where women were impregnated and their babies sold off by the management.

During the evacuation, a female undergraduate and other 47 children were rescued from the building.

Women, Children and Social Affairs Commissioner, Olubukola Olaboopo, and other officials of the ministry and police sealed off the facility identified as Oroyemi Elizabeth Covenant Home and Care Centre.

 

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In a statement to the press, Olaboopo said that the government received reports on the goings-on in the building over a period of three to four years suggesting that there were some illegal activities there.

Baby Factory Discovered, 25 Children And 6 Pregnant Women Rescued

She said despite warnings by the government, the owner persisted, thus breaching the Child Right Laws, and resulting in the closure of the building.

 

“We have gotten several reports over a period of 3-4 years, reporting how the children in Oroyemi Elizabeth Covenant Home and Care Centre are malnourished and the environment have been very dirty and how some illegal activities have been going on more or less like a baby factory and many more allegations,” she said.

 

“We rescued 47 children; 10-15 adult girls are there. Those with physical disabilities, among whom is an undergraduate of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, were among those that were rescued. Most of them were crying, they refused to follow us but we were able to take three of them.

 

“As at this (Saturday, August 5) morning, the matron who is taking care of those adults just told me that it seems two of them are breastfeeding. When we interrogated them, they said they have never given birth to a child. So it means that we want to know who got them pregnant when they are not married.

 

“How come they are pregnant? So there are so many things underneath and the state government is still investigating.

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