YENAGOA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Police in southeastern Nigeria
raided a child trafficking facility holding at least 23 children
and four pregnant teenagers, a police spokesman said on
Thursday.
Officers arrested three people and rescued the children, who
were aged between 1 and 4.
Nnamdi Omoni, a police spokesman in Rivers State, said the
captors were running what is known locally as a "baby factory",
where young women are held until they give birth, and their
babies are sold to other families.
"I can assure you that it is not an orphanage centre because
if it were so pregnant women ought not to be there," Omoni said.
In September, police in Lagos freed 19 women and girls who
had mostly been abducted and impregnated by captors planning to
sell their babies.