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\"Naija<\/a>Nigerian police said Saturday they had raided a home near Lagos where<\/span> eight pregnant girls were staying with plans to sell each of their newborns for nearly two thousand dollars.<\/p>\n

“Following intelligence report, we discovered and stormed on Friday a baby factory in Akute district<\/span> of Ogun state,” a police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told AFP.<\/div>\n

In the home they found the suspected operator and eight pregnant girls, most of them under the age of 20, he said.<\/p>\n

It is the latest discovery of a so-called ‘baby factory’ and the first known case in southwest Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The Guardian newspaper in Lagos published on its front page Saturday a picture of the eight girls, showing their protruding bellies.<\/p>\n

“The girls confessed that each newborn child will be sold for 300,000 naira<\/span> ($1,800\/1,300 euros),” Oyeyemi said, adding that the suspects will be charged in court with crimes at the end of the current investigations.<\/p>\n

Friday’s raid brings to about 125 the number of girls the police have rescued since 2011 in ‘baby factories’, most of which were located in southeastern states<\/span> of the country.<\/p>\n

Southeast Nigeria is grappling with a human trafficking epidemic, with a series of black market maternity homes discovered in the last two years.<\/p>\n

In most cases, young women have run to such homes to avoid the stigma attached to pregnancies conceived outside marriage.<\/p>\n

They take a portion of the money earned from selling the baby.<\/p>\n

The buyers are most often couples who have been unable to conceive and male children typically earn a much higher price than baby girls.<\/p>\n

Human trafficking is widespread in West Africa, where children are bought from their families to work in<\/span> plantations, mines and factories or as domestic help.<\/p>\n

Others are sold into prostitution, and less commonly they are tortured or sacrificed in black magic rituals.<\/p>\n

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Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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