'Baby factory' raided. Babies sold for ... rituals!

[alhoon]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110601...20110601143218


" Nigerian police have raided a home allegedly being used to force teenage girls to have babies that were then offered for sale for trafficking or other purposes, authorities said on Wednesday.

"We rescued 32 pregnant girls and arrested the proprietor who is undergoing interrogation over allegations that he normally sells the babies to people who may use them for rituals or other purposes."

"We have so many cases going on in court right now," said Okoronkwo.
In 2008, police raids revealed an alleged network of such clinics, dubbed baby "farms" or "factories" in the local press.
Cases of child abuse and people trafficking are common in West Africa. Some children are bought from their families to for use as labour in plantations, mines, factories or as domestic help.
Others are sold into prostitution while a few are either killed or tortured in black magic rituals. NAPTIP says it has also seen a trend of illegal adoption." "



Now, that was low. Very low. I can't think of many crimes worse than selling babies for black magic rituals. I thought such things were for b-movies.

Check the prices: 200$/kid.

This incident isn't the only one according to the article, there's a trend. Slavery, prostitution, killed/tortured in rituals. Illegal adoption seems like a heavenly act, it really can't compare with the others.


I'm curious why there's no revolution in Nigeria since poverty is the reason such things happen.

[Imperial]

Revolt in Nigeria? Surely you jest. They probably don't even know they have a government.

[alhoon]

Revolt in Nigeria? Surely you jest. They probably don't even know they have a government.

Hmmm? So it's like Somalia where the most powerful warlord rules?

[Sir Winston Churchill]

Hmmm? So it's like Somalia where the most powerful warlord rules?

Isn't that 98% of Africa?

[Ancient Aliens]

This is ing ridiculous. Someone needs to go down to Africa and start a revolution. It's unacceptable to me that the place of origin for the entire human race has to live in such poor conditions with such insane crimes being perpetrated against its own people.

[Sir Winston Churchill]

This is ing ridiculous. Someone needs to go down to Africa and start a revolution. It's unacceptable to me that the place of origin for the entire human race has to live in such poor conditions with such insane crimes being perpetrated against its own people.

Sad thing is Africa isn't really important to anybody. We can't really colonize it in an effort to better their lives, that would be Imperialist even if it's already been shown Africa can't solve it's own goddamn problems.

NATO has to freaking intervene if their elections for Christ sake!

[Dr. Croccer]

This is ing ridiculous. Someone needs to go down to Africa and start a revolution. It's unacceptable to me that the place of origin for the entire human race has to live in such poor conditions with such insane crimes being perpetrated against its own people.

It's that time again....

[Claudius Gothicus]

This is ing ridiculous. Someone needs to go down to Africa and start a revolution. It's unacceptable to me that the place of origin for the entire human race has to live in such poor conditions with such insane crimes being perpetrated against its own people.

Europeans need to go back to Africa, put a gun down the African leader's throats and restart the job they left undone 70 years ago.

[Tiberios]

What the is wrong with these people. And by these I mean the perpetrators of these crimes.

[Valiant Champion]

This is why they call it the Dark Continent. It is almost as savage today (definitely more dangerous with headhunters armed with machine guns instead of spears) as it was when Morton Stanley traversed the Continents equatorial mountians, rivers and jungles.

[Last Roman]

This is why they call it the Dark Continent.

mmmmm, nope.

Africa should be colonized and properly civillized

Because it worked so well last time, right?

[mongrel]

A serious issue wrecked by stereotyping and casual racism. Would the forum like to scrub the above out and give the OP the debate it deserves?

To be accurate though, most of the kids would probably be sold into servitude or prostitution (read the article carefully).

There is an issue with children being accused of witchcraft by evangelicals. Bartholemew's notes can tell you more than I can. http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/

[Sir Winston Churchill]

A serious issue wrecked by stereotyping and casual racism. Would the forum like to scrub the above out and give the OP the debate it deserves?

I see no stereotyping nor racism.

It's a fact that albinos in Africa are hunted down like game and viciously dismembered alive, their body parts used in dark rituals and superstition that they're bad luck.

Constant civil wars and strife, villages being raided. Men killed, women raped, children pressed into militia.

Need I mention blood diamonds?

All that and more. You can not tell me Africa is not a very troubled place.

[alhoon]

To be accurate though, most of the kids would probably be sold into servitude or prostitution (read the article carefully).

I'm not OK with either slavery or forced prostitution either. Not to mention that this forced prostitution serving won't start after 18.
Also even one baby sold as a ritual part is too much to comprehend. More or less, I knew that children were sold to slavery/prostitution rings. I've heard that some were sold for their organs.

But for human sacrifice?!? In 21st century?!?
The crimes commited there against humanity are too heinous to comprehend.

We call ourselves the civilized western nations. We sit on our round butts while such things happen and poverty is the driving force. I fully recommend erasing the debt of those African countries.

Not fair for the west? Well, selling one of your kids so the others may have a chance to survive isn't fair either.

Not enough? Then let's find another way, let's think. Giving money to their goverments so that they could make a better police would just lead to authoritarian dictatorships while these crimes will continue.

One thing's for certain: something must be done.

[mongrel]

I'm not OK with either slavery or forced prostitution either. Not to mention that this forced prostitution serving won't start after 18.
Also even one baby sold as a ritual part is too much to comprehend. More or less, I knew that children were sold to slavery/prostitution rings. I've heard that some were sold for their organs.

But for human sacrifice?!? In 21st century?!?
The crimes commited there against humanity are too heinous to comprehend.

We call ourselves the civilized western nations. We sit on our round butts while such things happen and poverty is the driving force. I fully recommend erasing the debt of those African countries.

Not fair for the west? Well, selling one of your kids so the others may have a chance to survive isn't fair either.

Welcome to the Nigerian underworld.

Brits with long memories for example me, recall the London torso murder, which introduced us to this practice. Caused a scare at the time. Arsenal Star Nwankwo Kanu and Nelson Mandela made a appeals for information and I believe someone was arrested for the crime.

Last April former South African leader Nelson Mandela

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1O3zkOWbu



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2824417.stm

I share you disgust that this practice has somehow managed to survive. However , as i said, a serious subject, which desreves better than some of the trashy posts I have seen thus far.

I was annoyed by some of the above posts because it is evident that the Nigerian state was nothing to do with these murderous charlatans, the state puts them to death when caught. and neither do the general populace .


For example, in 1996, the police in the southern Nigerian city of Owerri arrested a man, Innocent Ekeanyanwu, with the head of a young boy, Ikechukwu Okonkwo. In the course of the investigation, the police discovered the buried torso of Ikechukwu on the premises of Otokoto Hotel, owned by Chief Duru, and uncovered a syndicate that specialized in ritual killing and the sale and procurement of human parts. The horrifying discoveries sparked off violent protests in the city of Owerri which led to the burning and looting of properties belonging to suspected killers. Otokoto and his ritualist syndicate were arrested and put on trial, and in February 2003, they were sentenced to death by hanging.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200301270396.html

http://ambroseehirim.blogspot.com/20...koto-saga.html

But Africa IS predominatly Muslim.

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Only in the North. Geography is not your strong point I guess.

[mongrel]

I see no stereotyping nor racism.

It's a fact that albinos in Africa are hunted down like game and viciously dismembered alive, their body parts used in dark rituals and superstition that they're bad luck.

Constant civil wars and strife, villages being raided. Men killed, women raped, children pressed into militia.

Need I mention blood diamonds?

All that and more. You can not tell me Africa is not a very troubled place.

As I mentioned in response to one of your earlier posts, ignorance is bliss. I could conflate the works of Joseph Fritzl, Ratko Mladic and Armin Miewes and suggest that 98% of continental Europe is like that. But I am not that silly.

They will probably blame it on the white man in some way...

Who and why?

[Sir Winston Churchill]

As I mentioned in response to one of your earlier posts, ignorance is bliss.

You must be pretty blissful then.

[Rolling Thunder]

As I mentioned in response to one of your earlier posts, ignorance is bliss. I could conflate the works of Joseph Fritzl, Ratko Mladic and Armin Miewes and suggest that 98% of continental Europe is like that. But I am not that silly.

Clarification: approximately 80% of Africa's surface areas suffers from either intercine conflict, severe crime, widespread disease or horrifying ritual/religious/sexual outrages against human dignity, usually in combination. Approximately 80% of Africans are fairly decent people who're just trying to get on with their lives.

This is what happens when Christianity rules a country, you wouldn't see this kind of barbarity in a Muslim country. Once the entire world is Muslim, which will be very soon might i add, it will be a better place to live

Muslamic Troll Cannons, you say?

Judging by the way many multinationals treat workers in 3rd world countries (That is, like slaves) I somehow don't think re-colonization is the answer to crime.

Source?

[Treize]

They will probably blame it on the white man in some way...

[Manuel I Komnenos]

Africa... For God's shake...