Elderly Woman Sells Grandchild to Settle Debt (video)

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An elderly woman was almost lynched for selling her grandchild to settle a debt she owes her landlord.

The woman’s daughter got hysterical when she returned from an errand to find that her baby was missing.

She insisted that the child was sleeping when she made to go out so she left him in the care of her mother while she ran off to buy something.

She returned home to find that her son had vanished and the grandmother was unable to tell his whereabouts. The young mother immediately raised an alarm, insisting that her mother produce her baby.

Members of the public gathered to enquire what the hysteria was about and the moment she narrated her story, they made to lynch her mother.

The elderly woman was slapped severally and flogged with sticks but she insisted that the baby’s disappearance was a mystery to her too.

The mob grabbed a keg of petrol and were about to burn her to death when she confessed to her crime.

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