How teenagers, desperate couples fuel baby factories – Police

Baby factories where teens are kept and made to bear children for a token and the babies sold have become the order of the day. As shocking, immoral and unreligious as it may seem, some Nigerians still indulge in the act. In this interview, Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, speaks on what the police are doing to check the trend.
There have, of late, been an increase in cases of baby factories as discovered by the police, especially in the South-east. What do you think is responsible for the development?
An exposition of the concept of baby factories tells us the cause of this ugly trade. Baby factories are locations where young ladies or girls, some teenagers or little above that, are harboured and deliberately encouraged or forced to become pregnant and subsequently give up their babies for sale. The fact that these ladies are from poverty-stricken background makes it possible for them to be easily enticed with the offer of monetary gains by the operators of these illegal baby farms. After paying some token to these young mothers, the babies are sold to buyers for illegal adoptions.
Can you throw more light on the cause of this problem?
As earlier stated, one of the major factors that fuel the crime is the pecuniary benefit associated with it. This is further fueled by the patronage the operators enjoy from desperate couples who have, in their wrong belief, reduced marriage to mere baby making unions. You can imagine that,
in some cases, the prices of these babies differ in sex and occasionally in complexion.
Baby boys are costlier because, in this part of the world, some wrongly believe that having baby boys gives the woman legitimacy and strong hold on her marriage. Other factors that fuel the crime are greed and ungodliness which are the common traits of those in this unwholesome practice.

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