Stolen Baby Rescue In Akwa Ibom By The Police

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.

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.