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In June 2011, Nigerian police intervened facilities of the Cross Foundation located in Abia, southeastern Nigeria, identifying 32 young pregnant women aged between 15 and 17 years old, who were compelled by the owner of this foundation to give birth. According to the National Agency against Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, some teenage girls told the police that the foundation offered them the purchase of their unborn babies for about 130 euros. The children were then sold for about 4,500 euros (RFI, 2011). Also, in 2008, police raids revealed a network of "baby factories" and according to the local director of NAPTIP, Ijeoma Okoronkwo, many of these cases are currently being processed by the courts of Nigeria. Source: Soares, Ursula. RFI. Trafic de bébés destinés à la vente découvert au Nigeria, May 11th 2013. Available in: http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20110602-trafic-bebes-destines-vente-decouvert...