Newly-Born Baby Sold For US$180, Recorded As Dead At Birth, In Chilling Case Of Illegal Adoption

A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD mum and her mother connived to sell a newly-born baby for US$180 in a chilling case of illegal adoption which highlights the darkness of that underworld.

The mother of the child’s name has been withheld although she used the name Nobuhle Sibanda in the stinky deal.

Her mother’s name is Evelyn Zisengwe.

The two connived to sell Nobuhle’s nine-month baby to Dion Tore, a dealer in the underworld whom they had met on a WhatsApp group.

The three have since been arrested and yesterday they appeared in court to face human trafficking charges.

They were remanded in custody to Thursday for bail considerations.

The court heard that in January the trio connived to traffic Sibanda’s nine-month baby through unlawful adoption.

It is alleged that Sibanda and her mother met Tore on a WhatsApp group called Sora ne Miti.

Zisengwe allegedly told Tore that her daughter was pregnant but intended to abort the child.

Tore claimed she had a problem of persistent miscarriages and she wanted to adopt the child.

She contacted the teenager, who was pregnant at the time, and they agreed to meet on February 22.

Tore allegedly facilitated a scan of the unborn child and it was established that it was a baby girl and the pregnancy was seven months and three weeks old.

They went to Sally Mugabe Hospital where they connived with a nurse, who is not known at the moment, so that she could prematurely deliver her child.

Tore supplied her personal details to Harare Hospital Officials, purporting to be the one who was bearing the pregnancy and all the supplied details were falsified.

Sibanda delivered her child prematurely on February 25 and handed her over to Tore on March 5 at Harare Hospital.

Tore went on to create a fake death record claiming that Sibanda had given birth and her child had passed away.

Between May and August Zisengwe received a total of US$180 from Tore and the money was sent through Ecocash.

The trio was arrested after a tip-off was made to police in Murehwa.

In May, Pauline Maganga was jailed for 10 years for selling her child in a human trafficking case. H-Metro

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