Female Police officer sells baby brought to police station

A female sergeant, Obotie Adesuwa, allegedly sold a week-old baby boy who had been brought with his mother to a police station by a Good Samaritan, who was taking care of the baby’s mother, had brought Toyin and her child to the station after Toyin was delivered of the baby in a psychiatric hospital on September.

Adesuwa, who hails from Edo State, is attached to the Akinpelu Police Division, where the baby boy and her mother, Toyin, who is said to be mentally unstable, had also been brought to by a Good Samaritan.

PUNCH Metro gathered that there was, however, trouble at the Akinpelu division on Monday, November 9, when Toyin showed up at the station to ask for her baby, but the sergeant allegedly denied knowing the woman.

the Divisional Police Officer invited the mother and the sergeant and interrogated them. The sergeant was said to have confessed to the DPO that she collected the baby but had sold him to a family in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Adesuwa was arrested and taken to the Area F command, Ikeja, from where she was later transferred to the X-Squad Section.