Nigerian Police Suspect Child Trafficking

The ColumbianMarch 08, 2005

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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Police found dozens of dusty, exhausted children some as young as 1 packed into a fishmonger's truck during a routine search in Nigeria's capital, and a suspected child- trafficker claimed their parents consented to hiring them out as servants, authorities said Monday.

The suspect, Fatima Baba, told police she brought the 52 children from Makwa town in northern Nigeria's Niger state to hire them out as domestic servants, Lagos state police spokesman Ademola Adebayo said.

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