Nigeria - Second 'Baby Factory' Found In Week, New Born Sold For $200
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Human trafficking is Nigeria's third most common crime and babies can be sold for as little as £120.
Three people have been arrested on suspicion of planning to sell the babies of teenage girls in Nigeria.
The so-called "baby factory" is the second to be discovered in the southeast of the country in a week.
The latest case was unearthed by police during a raid on a house in Enugu.
Two men and a woman are believed to have been using the six girls, all aged under 17, in a child trafficking ring.
Police spokesman Ebere Amaraizu told AFP news agency that the girls had been "lured into the house with a promise of some money" after delivering a child.
According to the Daily Post, they were smuggled out of their homes and going to be held until they gave birth.
Just five days earlier police freed 17 pregnant teenage girls and 11 small children from a home in Umuaka.
Some of the girls were aged as young as 14 and said that they had been impregnated by a 23-year old man who is now in custody.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation say that human trafficking is the third most common crime in Nigeria after fraud and drug trafficking.
According to girls freed in 2011, they had been offered to sell their babies for around £120 each.
The so-called "baby factory" is the second to be discovered in the southeast of the country in a week.
The latest case was unearthed by police during a raid on a house in Enugu.
Two men and a woman are believed to have been using the six girls, all aged under 17, in a child trafficking ring.
Police spokesman Ebere Amaraizu told AFP news agency that the girls had been "lured into the house with a promise of some money" after delivering a child.
According to the Daily Post, they were smuggled out of their homes and going to be held until they gave birth.
Just five days earlier police freed 17 pregnant teenage girls and 11 small children from a home in Umuaka.
Some of the girls were aged as young as 14 and said that they had been impregnated by a 23-year old man who is now in custody.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation say that human trafficking is the third most common crime in Nigeria after fraud and drug trafficking.
According to girls freed in 2011, they had been offered to sell their babies for around £120 each.
