This paper seeks to draw the attention of the academia, policy makers
and human rights activists across the globe to look into the plight of teenage
girls who are victims of the latest dangerous form of human trafficking, trade
of infants popularly called ?baby factory? in Nigeria. Human trafficking is a
serious crime against humanity and the dimension is changing from time to time,
especially from prostitution, forced labour, domestic servitude and begging
towards the dimension at which young women, especially the teenage girls are
recruited and trafficked, made pregnant, have their babies harvested and sold
to adopters through illegal means. The phenomenon has shifted from the
trafficking of adult and children who can communicate and talk, to the
trafficking of newbornsthat are voiceless. This illegal trade is now a common
phenomenon in Nigeria. It has been discovered in the South-East, South-South
and South-West regions of the country. The ?baby factory? kind of human
trafficking is believed to be caused by high rates of poverty, loss of common
shared-values, income inequality, illiteracy and unemployment. The trafficking
of infants is calamitous for the image of Nigeria as a country, a threat to the
fundamental human rights of Nigerians especially women and girls and sadly a
threat to the future of the trafficked babies. It has become a nightmare for the
parents and guardiansof the teenage girls who may not necessarily know the
where about of their daughters. This paper employedthe use of secondary data by
reviewing reported cases from the media and delving into the economic and
social causes of the crime, its social effect on women and girls and how
entrepreneurship trainingscan be used as a rehabilitating mechanism for the
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