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A 32-year-old commercial sex worker named Victoria Chekwube has been held by the Ebonyi State Police Command for attempting to sell her four months old baby boy due to hunger and other economic hardship.
According to sources, Victoria was staying at the demolished market along the Ogbee Hausa axis, in the Abakaliki metropolis, where she became pregnant, for a yet-to-be-identified man, however, she became homeless and began begging for arms when the market was demolished.
When she approached some individuals with her intent to sell the baby boy, they informed the police who then arrested and took her into custody.
Victoria, according to investigation, was a commercial sex hawker.
It was gathered that Victoria was staying at the demolished market along the Ogbee Hausa axis, in the Abakaliki metropolis, where she became pregnant, for a yet-to-be-identified man.
Sources, who spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity, said she became homeless after the demolition of the market and wandered the area, begging for arms.
It was gathered that good spirited individuals, whom she approached and indicated her intent to sell her baby boy little Victus Chekwube, informed the police about her plan, which led to her arrest, thereafter.
Victoria said, “My name is Chekwube Victoria. I am 32 years old. I’m from Ebonyi State. I am a sex worker. I used to stay at Ogbe Hausa in Abakaliki here.