This archive report was first published on 2 October 2019.
Published on October 2, 2019, by the BBC, Nigerian mothers and babies rescued from a notorious 'baby factory' in Lagos are now receiving social and medical support in a shelter.
According to Julie Okah-Donli, Director General of Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (Naptip), the women are being rehabilitated before they return to their families.
The women, aged between 15 and 28, were mostly teenagers and came from all over Nigeria. They were held in a house described as a 'baby factory' for various reasons, including being lured by the promise of employment or being abducted.
Some of the women were taken advantage of by traffickers who knew they were pregnant and scared to tell their parents, while others were induced into labor prematurely, resulting in the death of their babies.
Police had earlier stated that most of the women were abducted 'for the purpose of getting them pregnant and selling the babies.' The prices for male and female babies were reportedly $1,400 and $830, respectively.
