A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for impregnating 10 women.
It was gathered that the boy was arrested in Nigeria’s Rivers State alongside his accomplice, Chigozie Ogbonna, a 29-year-old man.
The four suspects reportedly operated in Obio/Akpor and Ikwerre local government areas of the state.
Also, the police said 10 pregnant girls were rescued.
The police spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, said the feat followed a tip-off which the command acted on.
The statement read, “On Saturday, January 7, 2023, around 4.45pm, while acting on credible intelligence available to the Rivers State Police Command, C4I Intelligence Unit operatives raided two houses at Igwuruta and Omagwa communities respectively, where victims of child trafficking were being kept.”
“The victims rescued in the operation are 10, most of them pregnant..”
Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, said investigations revealed that when a victim was delivered of her baby, the syndicate leader kept the child and paid her a sum of N500,000.
