Police Rescue 37 Babies From Baby-Selling Trafficking Ring in China
By Sarah Zagorski
Partially republished with permission from LifeNews.com
Earlier
this (year), China Central Television reported that authorities rescued
37 babies and a toddler out of an abandoned factory in the southwestern
province of Shandong. The children were found in poor condition and
many were suffering from HIV-AIDS and malnutrition. Police first became
suspicious of the trafficking ring when they noticed that pregnant women
were being herded into the factory.
According to CNN, human traffickers were recruiting
pregnant women in the area willing to sell their babies and hid them in
the factory until they gave birth. Then, after the women had their
babies, they gave the newborns over to the traffickers and left.
A Chinese police official, Chen Shiqu, said that the
incident is a “new criminal pattern” in which child traffickers take
pregnant women to a specific place to give birth. Currently, police have
103 people in custody who are suspected of selling or buying children. Read More
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