Police arrest suspected child trafficker, rescue 12 victims in Imo.

The Imo State Police Command has arrested a 42-year-old woman suspected of child trafficking and rescued 12 children. 

The command’s spokesman, Henry Okoye, disclosed in a statement in Owerri on Monday, that the suspect was arrested on June 20, during a stop-and-search operation along the Owerri-Aba Express Road.

Okoye revealed that the rescued children, aged between 5 and 13, were allegedly forced into street begging in Aba, Abia State, noting that the suspect, who confessed to trafficking children from Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area to Aba, claimed that proceeds from their activities were sent to a motherless babies' home in Rivers State.

He added that children are currently in safe custody, and efforts are ongoing to identify and reunite them with their biological families. 

The Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, has condemned child trafficking and warned that perpetrators will face the law, emphasizing that anyone with information to help reunite the children with their families can contact the X-Squad Unit.

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