25-YR-OLD LADY, TWO OTHERS ARRESTED FOR KILLING A NEW MOM AFTER SELLING HER NEWBORN TWINS FOR N3MILLION

Three ladies have been charged in front of an Enugu magistrate court for allegedly plotting to sell a pair of newborn twins and kill their mother at the same time.

The three accused, Aroh Ijeoma, 39, Ukorie Cynthia, 25, and Onyia Pauline, 56, were arraigned on Friday. 26 August.

The suspects, who were detained on July 26, 2022, by police officers working at Central Police Station (CPS) Enugu, were remanded in Enugu Correctional Custodial Center for further hearing of the case, according to DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the state police command's spokesperson.

Their detention followed the receipt of a report alleging that they conspired to sell the newborn twins of a 31-year-old woman named Chinenye Odoh, and that they then killed her by poisoning her food after she realized the suspects had given her less money than they had received in exchange for the babies.

Investigations showed that Ukorie Cynthia housed the deceased until she gave birth on July 5, 2022, and that Aroh Ijeoma arranged for the sale of the infants by getting in touch with Onyia Pauline, a nurse. Onyia Pauline brought a couple who purchased the infants at birth for N3 million.

Ijeoma paid the dead and mother of the babies, Chinenye, the sum of N1.8 million after telling her that, in contrast to this amount, the children had been sold for N2,550,000. She gave Pauline and Cynthia each N50,000 and kept the rest for herself.

When the deceased learned the precise price for which they sold the babies, she sought the remaining money but was later reported to have consumed some allegedly poisonous maize that Cynthia had given to her, which ultimately caused her death.

A new hearing date of September 5, 2022 was set for the case.