An espe­cially dis­turb­ing form of human traf­fick­ing called “Baby Har­vest­ing” is tak­ing place in Nige­ria. How­ever we learned about it today from a story in Ghana, as offi­cials there want to make sure it does not occur in their own country.

From Joy Online, writer Ebenezer Han­son recieved a descrip­tion of the practice.

Baby Har­vest­ing is the act of lur­ing teenage girls who are eco­nom­i­cally chal­lenged to cities in the name of adop­tion accord­ing to Mr. Eric Boakye Peasah, the Counter-trafficking Field Man­ager of the Inter­na­tional Orga­ni­za­tion for Migra­tion (I0M).

Mr. Peasah explained that these unsus­pect­ing girls are usu­ally kept in homes where men are arranged to have sex­ual inter­course repeat­edly with them until they get preg­nant. He explained fur­ther that the girls are usu­ally pro­vided with ante­na­tal care until they give birth after which the babies are plucked from these unfor­tu­nate girls who are then paid off.

“It has not yet occurred in Ghana but once it is hap­pen­ing in Nige­ria we must all take steps to fore­stall it in this coun­try,” he told stake­hold­ers at the launch­ing of a Legal Resources Cen­tre (LRC) capac­ity build­ing for law enforce­ment offi­cers and vic­tim ser­vice providers in Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons in Accra.

He revealed that a group of swindlers has been busted in Nige­ria for engag­ing in ‘Baby Har­vest­ing’ which must serve as warn­ing signs to Ghanaians.

Also hap­pen­ing in Nige­ria, Mr. Peasah fur­ther dis­closed, is the mind bog­gling act known as ‘Touch­ing’. With these adults with­out any mod­icum of con­science turn them­selves into ‘gynae­col­o­gists’ and exam­ine the pri­vate parts of girls. Those who are found with ‘suit­able’ gen­i­tals are adopted and when they grow to become teenagers, they are pushed into prostitution.

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