The Abia Police Command, on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of a woman, who allegedly sold her three-year-old grandson to a ritualist. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Udeviotu Onyeke said part of the investigation being carried out on the detained woman was to determine her sanity.

The woman, who had earlier lied that that the child was missing, allegedly told the police that she sold him for one hundred thousand naira, to a native doctor in Akwa Ibom and wanted to use the money to buy a motorcycle before end of the year.