Nigeria 'baby factory' raided in Imo state

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Source: BBC

Seventeen pregnant teenage girls and 11 babies have been rescued from a house in Nigeria's south-eastern Imo state, police have said. They say they are looking for a woman suspected of planning to sell the babies.

"The girls claimed they were fed once a day and were not allowed to leave the home," said spokeswoman Joy Elomoko.

The rescued girls said they had all been made pregnant by a 23-year-old man, who has been arrested, reports the AFP news agency. The European Union says Nigeria, along with China, is one of the biggest sources of people trafficked into Europe, where they are often forced into prostitution. In 2011, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (Naptip), said their investigations showed that babies are sold for up to $6,400 (£4,200) each.

Poor, unmarried women face tough choices if they get pregnant in Nigeria, often facing exclusion from society, correspondents say. Naptip says desperate teenagers with unplanned pregnancies are sometimes lured to clinics and then forced to turn over their babies.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22484318

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1. Damn, the last sentence in that article is emm-effing GRIM:

The babies can be sold for illegal adoption, used for child labour or prostitution or sometimes killed with their body parts used for ritual purposes.

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[Beaverhausen]

2. oh for god's sake

this is fucked up

[Mopar151]

3. Chrissie Hynde/The Pretenders

"When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world, dead babies just come with the scenery."

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4. This is some really sick stuff...

just horrible to treat people in such a manner.

[truthisfreedom]

5. I've always been against the death penalty, but this story makes me

so boiling mad that I'm imagining a torture penalty. Where the perp is forced to endure the same level of pain that they've inflicted for the rest of their lives.

[Locut0s]

6. Yeah Africa where all the world's ills come to shake hands.

I mean this in the least racist way possible but god is so much of Africa a horrible basket case. Still tons of wonderful people there, interesting cultures, history, and much more. But also one of the few places where baby rape, dismemberment, sex slaves and child soldiers are common almost daily headlines.