An 18-year-old girl identified as Blessing John has been arrested while negotiating to sell a four-year-old boy she kidnapped in Adamawa State.
It was gathered that the suspect John is an applicant who hails from Unguwan Cashew along Michika General Hospital Road.
After her arrest, she confessed that she abducted the boy from Michika with the intention of selling him in Mubi, and using proceeds from the sale to buy a car and a house.
According to her, she lured the boy (name withheld) from her neighbourhood in Michika and took him to Anguwan Kara, in Mubi to meet a prospective buyer.
However, several calls to the prospective buyer’s phone lines were unsuccessful.
Out of desperation, the suspect decided to speak to someone in the neighbourhood, about the whereabouts of the prospective buyer.
In the process of doing so, she unwittingly disclosed that she brought the boy to him to buy.
Confirming the news, the command’s Public Relations Officer, Sulaiman Nguroje, said the man then provided the police with the information that led to the suspect’s arrest.
He said;
“According to her, she got in contact with a kidnapper during her recent visit to Mubi when a friend told her she could make money by supplying children to ritualists.
She, in desperation for material wealth, abducted her neighbour’s son to raise money to buy a car and live a luxurious life.
She took the little boy to Mubi to sell, but when she could not reach the buyer on the telephone, she decided to search for another buyer. She ended up talking to the wrong person, who in turn informed the police.”
Nguroje warned parents to always keep a close eye on their children and the company they keep.
