Police Rescue Stolen Baby In Akwa Ibom

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has found a baby boy,
David Johnny, who was stolen by a doctor with the connivance of his
mother and sold to a woman in Abuja.

Rescued baby Credits: The Punch

The
Punch reports, that Esther Johnny, the child’s mother, initially denied
knowledge of the crime as the police intensified efforts to unravel the
whereabouts of the baby.
Mike Okol, the assistant commissioner
of police, State Criminal Investigation Department, revealed the details
of successful operation on April 28 in Uyo.
He said when the
police arrested the doctor, he tried to frustrate police investigation
into the matter. Therefore, the police officers had to tell the doctor
that they would charge him to court for kidnapping if he failed to
produce the missing child.


“The
police in Akwa Ibom State have rescued a baby boy, David Johnny, who
was stolen when he was three-day-old and handed over to a doctor in Port
Harcourt. The baby was subsequently taken to Abuja.
“When
we found the doctor, he refused to cooperate as he tried to frustrate
the efforts of the police in investigating the case of the stolen boy. “My officers in the trafficking department moved from Uyo to Port Harcourt, Umuahia, and Aba in search of the stolen child.
“It
was not until Wednesday, April 22, when the pressure became so much,
that the woman who had bought the child, took the child back to the
clinic in Port Harcourt, where she bought him, and abandoned him there,” he said.


According
to Okol, it was the phone call the woman, who had bought the child,
made to the doctor who was in the police custody in Uyo that helped them
to find the whereabouts of the baby.
“The biological mother sold the child through the doctor to the woman for N300,000,” he added.
Esther
who is 18 years old said that David was her third baby and she could
not take care of all of her children. Therefore, she made a decision to
sell him.