Chinese child trafficking discovered

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Chinese child trafficking discovered
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Authorities raided an abandoned factory this week
in East China during a child trafficking bust and
rescued 37 babies and a toddler, many suffering
from HIV-AIDS and malnutrition. Authorities
began an investigation over the summer when
police saw pregnant women being herded into an
abandoned, run-down factory in Jining, a city in
southwestern Shandong province. Traffickers had
allegedly recruited pregnant women in the area
willing to sell their babies and kept them in the
factory until they gave birth. After the women
delivered their babies, they reportedly handed
over the newborns to the traffickers and left.
Inside, police said they found diapers and other
signs the building was being used as underground
delivery room. The children were reportedly
smuggled into a local morgue and sold for between
8,000 and 13,000, with boys attracting the
higher prices. A 3-year-old girl up for sale had
reportedly been handed over to the traffickers by
relatives. Police arrested 103 people suspected
of selling or buying children. The recent case is
the result of a two-month sting operation in
which the babies were smuggled inside handbags
and luggage to a morgue at a hospital for
infectious diseases, where they were kept until
buyers arrived.
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