Nigerian police free 19 women and girls from Lagos ‘baby factory’: statement

LAGOS (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, have freed 19 women and girls who had mostly been abducted and impregnated by captors planning to sell their babies. 

The girls and women, aged from 15 to 28, had been brought from all over Nigeria with promises of work, Lagos police said on Monday. Four babies were also found. 

“Baby factories”, as such premises are widely known, are most common in parts of eastern Nigeria. 

“The young women were mostly abducted by the suspects for the purpose of getting them pregnant and selling the babies to potential buyers. The girls were tricked with employment as domestic staff in Lagos,” said Lagos police spokesman Bala Elkana. 

“Boys are sold for 500,000 naira ($1,630) and girls for 300,000 naira ($980).”

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कुतरा हुए रौशन चाँद

शांत है, पर उसके अंदर

कोई तो शोर और अंतर्द्वंद है.

जो रहने नहीं देता एक सा, चैन से उसे.

ज़िंदगी के रंग -197

ज़िंदगी ने तोड़ा कई बार .

फिर बड़ी सफ़ाई से रफ़ू भी कर दिए.

अब तो दाग़ भी नज़र नहीं आते.

Man on run for 17 years found living in remote cave in mountains

भूल और इस अपराध का यह नतीजा कितना दुखद है कि मनुष्य हो कर भी पशुओं जैसा जीवन जीना पड़े।

A fugitive who has been on the run from police in China for more than 17 years has been found living in a remote mountain cave.

Song Jiang escaped from a prison camp in 2002 while serving time for trafficking women and children.

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ख़्वाहिशों की चुभन

दिल क्यों वह चाहता है,

जो हो नहीं सकता.

फूटते बुलबुले को

फिर बनते देखा है क्या?

मालूम नहीं वह क्या है जिससे

ख़्वाहिशों की चुभन काम हो.

This place is a dream…

This place is a dream.

Only a sleeper

considers it real.

Then death comes

like dawn,

and you wake up laughing

at what you thought

was your grief.

Rumi ❤️