Posted on 11/06/2009 6:02:19 PM PST by Saije
Wanna buy a baby for a-thousand bucks?
Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died, at a private hospital in Mexico City, authorities said Wednesday.
Police uncovered the scheme after one of the women learned her baby was alive and had been sold to another woman for 15,000 pesos, $1,130 in US dollars, said Luis Genaro, the capital's deputy attorney general.
The woman gave birth to a girl in a working-class district in October 2008, Genaro said at a news conference.
He said she told authorities she heard her baby cry but when she asked to see the child, doctors told her she had to wait until the effects of the anesthetics wore off. Later, doctors told her the baby had been taken to another hospital. A day later, the woman was told her baby died and had been cremated, Genaro said.
The woman learned the truth from an e-mail sent to her by a man believed to be the son of the hospital director, Genaro said.
The woman accused of buying the newborn has been arrested. Three doctors, a nurse and a receptionist from the hospital are also in custody.
Genaro said police believe the group sold several newborn babies but have not yet determined how many. They face charges of trafficking in minors, organized crime and falsifying documents.
He said a married couple has also been arrested for allegedly paying the hospital to falsify a birth certificate for a baby that the pair had been given.
In a report this year, the U.S. State Department described Mexico as "a large source, transit and destination country" for human trafficking. The majority of victims are undocumented migrants and women and children trafficked for sexual exploitation...
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Yeah, it is pretty horrible, but it’s not like it doesn’t happen here as well. The University of California, for example, ran a fertility clinic, in the 1980s and 1990s, which stole embryonic children from parents who had come for fertility services. Some of those children were allegedly sold to unknown people to raise, without the knowledge or consent of the parents.
The University managed to hide the existence of those children (the oldest of which would now be in his or her early twenties) for approximately two decades, until 2006. Apparently, press attention, based on another story about a sham liver transplant program the University was running, led to a leak about the existence of those children (now young adults). The parents have thus far been unsuccessful in learning the fate or identity of their children. It is known, however, that many of the embryonic children created during the existence of this University of California program were sold for medical research, without the knowledge or consent of the parents.
Horrible. This happened to my aunt years ago. The doctor told her the baby died and showed her a dead baby. She didn’t believe him, but no one believed her. Messed her up too. She was a mess the rest of her life.
Her son found us a year after her death. He’d been oversees in Iraq when she died and was looking forward to finding her when he got back.
Anything that one could imagine, somebody would do--and many things that we could never imagine.
What about these adoption services that charge 5 figures (20-40K) for a foreign baby? I get the idea that you are buying the baby.
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