A strange woman suspected to be a child trafficker has disappeared with a 7-month old baby at the Amaraku Market in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State.
Immediately after the mother of the baby raised an alarm about incident that happened on Friday, the other market women were said to have mobilized themselves to assist in the search for the missing child.
Pleading anonymity, a trader, who narrated how the incident happened, said a suspected child trafficker targeted the crying baby wrapped on her mother’s back, while the mother was selling at her shop.
According to her, the strange woman approached the baby’s mother and offered to assist her carry the crying baby.
She said the the child trafficker also collected a wrapper from the mother of the child to tie the baby on her back.
She added that as the mother of the child was busy selling her wares, the suspected child trafficker disappeared with the baby.
She said: “I was buying some foodstuff at Amaraku Market when a woman started shouting, ‘My baby, my baby, where is my baby?’
“She had given her seven-month old baby out to a stranger, while she was selling okro and other vegetables because the baby was crying and disturbing.
“The stranger carried the baby on her back but later disappeared into the crowd. When the woman realised the woman was no longer in sight, she started shouting and crying.
“Other traders around helped to search for the woman but could not find her. The woman may have been charmed by the stranger because no one in her right senses will release her baby in such an environment with over ten thousand buyers and sellers. What is she going to tell her husband?”
