Tobiloba Adebiyi, heartbroken mother of 3-year-old Oluwasemilore, who
was kidnapped by her mum's apprentice, Mary John, a mother of one from
Cross River State, who specializes in stealing children and selling to
families without kids, has narrated how the suspect was arrested.
According to Tobilola, Mary John whose real name is Gladys Austin,
barely spent one week as an apprentice at Alagbado in Lagos State,
before she kidnapped her daughter, who was sold to 4 different buyers
before being rescued by operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery
Squad.
“After she was arrested in Badagry, she said she had been paid
N60,000 for the job before coming to my house and she had planned to
kidnap two of my children. But she couldn’t because I had
said if she didn’t come with a guarantor by Monday, she should not come to work.
After she kidnapped Oluwasemilore, she left for Anambra by a bus the
same day, and she sold her to an elderly woman, telling the woman that
my daughter belonged to a prostitute who wanted to get rid of the girl.
The woman buys new babies and resells to families without children.
The policemen asked her to call the woman that she had another child to
sell. When she did, the woman asked her if it was a ‘trouser’ or
‘skirt’, which was a code name for a boy or girl. We decided to give her
my son as bait.”
The Punch reports that she went further to disclose that those who bought her daughter, were inflicted with strange illness;
“Those people said when the child got to them, they became sick and
their business started failing. Within one month, my child had been sold
to 4 different families. The 4th woman was wealthy and despite falling
sick, she decided to keep her and enroll her in a new school. 4 suspects
have arrested in connection with the kidnapping,”
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