VDIEO: Romanian Child Trafficking Ring Busted

Friends of Ours ^ | 04/08/10 | Friends of Ours

[AtlasStalled]

Scotland Yard and Romanian police have busted 30 suspected mobsters who allegedly ran a child trafficking ring which kidnapped children from poor Gypsy communities and forced them into a life of crime in Britain as reported by the Daily Mail:

Police estimate that more then 170 youngsters as young as seven have been trafficked to the UK by the gang. * * * Police say the modern-day Fagins forced their young victims - snatched from poor gypsy communities - to beg in Britain and go on pick-pocketing and shoplifting sprees. Mob bosses set them up with bogus documents and homes in London and other big cities and then put them to work on the streets threatening their families at home if they tried to flee.

Many of the suspects "have been traced to the small town of Tandarei, a town of 15,000 people in eastern Romania which includes a 2,000-strong Roma gypsy population" as reported by Justin Davenport for the London Evening Standard: "In recent years previously run down areas of the town have suddenly prospered with imposing newly built homes and BMWs and Range Rovers in the drives with British number plates."

Meanwhile, with the help of the FBI, Romanian police arrested 70 suspects Tuesday who they claim were involved in eBay scams and other cybercrimes since 2006" as reported by Kim Zetter for Wired.

[556x45]

Not terribly surprising and really not ‘news’ as such. This sort of thing has been going on since the ‘adults’ figured out $$$ could be gotten for selling off the next generation.

[Hardraade]

Romania has been at this sh*t for 20+ years, as bad as the Japanese - and wellknown to law enforcement. About time for a fullscale cleanup, if they’re doing that.

[FemmePatriot]

Well, this is about gypsy culture, not the Romanian culture. The mobsters were gypsies praying on their own. Their culture has been separate and closed to the world for centuries and nothing has changed today.