{"id":63175,"date":"2025-03-22T22:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T22:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63175"},"modified":"2025-03-23T04:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T04:45:39","slug":"police-rescues-23-kids-from-traffickers-den-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/22\/police-rescues-23-kids-from-traffickers-den-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rescued from Traffickers&#8217; Den&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has rescued 23 children from a suspected child trafficking syndicate operating under the guise of an orphanage in Kubwa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The operation, carried out on March 20, 2025, followed credible intelligence on suspicious activities at Mother Deborah Orphanage.<\/p>\n<p>Police operatives from the Kubwa Division swiftly stormed the location and arrested the orphanage owner, Ijeoma Andy, along with another suspect.<\/p>\n<p>According to FCT Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, the raid led to the rescue of a three-year-old child suspected to have been stolen from Kaduna State, alongside 22 other children aged between two and 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations revealed that Andy could not provide a reasonable explanation of how the children ended up in her facility, raising strong suspicions of child trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The rescued children are now in protective custody receiving care, while efforts continue to track down other accomplices.<\/p>\n<p>The police urged residents to remain vigilant and report suspicious activities via emergency lines: 08032003913, 08028940883, 08061581938, and 07057337653.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has rescued 23 children from a suspected child trafficking syndicate operating under the guise of an orphanage in Kubwa, Abuja. The operation, carried out on March 20, 2025, followed credible intelligence on suspicious activities at Mother Deborah Orphanage. Police operatives from the Kubwa Division swiftly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63180,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63175\/revisions\/63180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}