Mother of three yearbold abducted girl - My apprentice sold her for N60,000.

Oluwasemilore Adebiyi, who was declared missing about a month ago, has been found.Her mother, Tobiloba, said an apprentice she admitted, Mary John, sold the three-year-old for N60,000.

Tobiloba, who spoke to punch Metro on the telephone from Anambra State where operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad rescued Oluwasemilore, added that John’s real name was Gladys Austin, a mother of one from Cross River State.

Punch learnt that John had barely spent a week as an apprentice of Tobiloba in the Alagbado area of Lagos State when she absconded with the victim.

The case was reported to policemen at the Alagbado division, from where it was transferred to the FSARS, which began a manhunt for the suspect, John was arrested in Badagry after which she confessed to the crime.

The victim’s mother said they discovered that John had collected N60,000 for her daughter before she appeared at their house in Alagbado.She added that Oluwasemilore was sold four different times to different women before she was rescued.

She said, “After she was arrested in Badagry, she said she had been paid N60,000 for the job before coming to my house and she had planned to kidnap my tw vn ngcn o children. But she couldn’t because I had said if she didn’t come with a guarantor by Monday, she should not come to work. “She said after she kidnapped Oluwasemilore, she left for Anambra by a bus the same day, and she sold her to an elderly woman, telling the woman that my daughter belonged to a prostitute who wanted to get rid of the girl. .

.“The woman buys new babies and resells to families without children. The policemen asked her to call the woman that she had another child to sell. When she did, the woman asked her if it was a ‘trouser’ or ‘skirt’, which was a code name for a boy or girl. We decided to give her my son as bait.” She explained that the buyer arranged to meet John at a bus stop in Onitsha, adding that the woman agreed to buy her son for N500,000.

The police were said to have posed as evangelists and bank customers while they laid in ambush for the suspect.