Man Sells Five-year-old Child To Rivers Couple
A High Court in Port Harcourt has sentenced one Promise Thompson to death by hanging for armed robbery and child theft.
They were accused of shooting one Chidiebere Ogbugu and stealing his five-year-old child.
The incident was said to have occurred on October 25, 2018, in Rumuolumeni, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Ogbunka was however said to have fled after she was granted bail by the police.
The presiding judge, Justice Sika Henry-Aprioku, in his judgment said the prosecution counsel proved that Thompson took the infant to Abia State and sold him to a syndicate who also sold the boy to another syndicate.
Justice Henry-Aprioku also sentenced one Chisom Lucky to seven years imprisonment, while her husband, Lucky, bagged a 10-year sentence for child theft, for buying the child from Thompson and selling him off afterwards.
