A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt have convicted two women Chinaza Smart and Amarachi Ahukanna aged twenty one and twenty eight year old, to twelve years imprisonment for conspiracy and child trafficking.
The two accused were convicted for conspiring to sell two year old boy Daniel Smart, second son of the 1st Defendant Chinaza Smart, to a woman by name precious who is at large, at Ihiala, Anambra State, for the sum of four hundred thousand naira.
The Presiding Magistrate, Chief Magistrate Felicitas Amanze, in her judgement convicted the two accused for commiting a heinous crime against an innocent child whose whereabout is yet unknown till date.
The court held that the 2nd Defendant Amarachi Ahukanna who introduced the 1st Defendant Chinaza Smart to the child trafficking business lied to court, that she did not convinced the 1st Defendant to sell her son, in order to raise money to travel to Dubai were she can earn four hundred thousand naira monthly.
The Chief Magistrate ruled that the 2nd Defendant is a chronic and unrepentant child trafficker.
Chief Magistrate Amanze sentenced the two accused to five years on count one and seven years on count 2, which is to run consecutively.
In an interview with our correspondent, Head Legal Officer FIDA Rivers State, Esther Achor-Korienta, said FIDA is happy with the judgement delivered as the organization is all out to ensure child trafficking offence stops in the state.
Achor-Korienta while commending the chief magistrate for the judgement noted that FIDA have been following up the case from the beginning.
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