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Child harvesting is the active drafting of parents and children for the adoption market and is particularly associated with and prevalent in some international adoption countries and markets.[1][2][3]

Typically a relinquishing family or parent is coerced into permanently giving away the child for adoption without any hope of ever re-connecting with the child.[4]

Baby factory

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Baby factory or baby farm is a location where women are encouraged or forced to become pregnant and give up their newborns for sale.[5][6][7] Some poverty-stricken women have stated they voluntarily worked at baby factories, motivated by the prospect of monetary gain.[8][9][10] The children are sold for adoption, will work in plantations, mines and factories, will carry out domestic work or are sold into prostitution.[9][11][12] Less commonly they are tortured or sacrificed in black magic, witchcraft rituals.[5][6][7]

Nigerian Raids

In 2008, a network of baby factories claiming to be orphanages, was revealed in Enugu, Enugu State (Nigeria) by police raids.[12][13][14] In 2011, Nigerian police raided two more hospitals, thereby dismantling two baby factories: in June, thirty-two pregnant girls were rescued in Aba, Abia from a hospital of the The Cross Foundation;[5][7][11] in October, seventeen pregnant girls (thirty according to some sources[15][16]) were rescued in Ihiala, Anambra from a hospital of the Iheanyi Ezuma Foundation.[6][17]

See also

References

  1. ^ Geoghegan, Andrew (2009-09-15). "Fly Away Children". ABC Online. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  2. ^ International Baby Harvesting and Adoption-Abduction
  3. ^ Selected Works of David M. Smolin
  4. ^ Geoghegan, Andrew (2009-09-15). "Fly Away Children". ABC Online. Retrieved 27 November 2010. 'relinquishing' Ethiopian parents or carers may have been duped into giving up their children through a heartless process
  5. ^ a b c Nigeria 'baby farm' girls rescued by Abia state police, BBC, June 1, 2011
  6. ^ a b c Nigerian baby factory raided, News24, October 16, 2011
  7. ^ a b c Nigerian 'baby farm' raided – 32 pregnant girls rescued, The Guardian, June 2, 2011
  8. ^ Thai Police Free 14 Women From Illegal Baby-Breeding Farm In Bangkok, The Huffington Post, February 24, 2011
  9. ^ a b The shocking truth about the baby factories, Mail Online, December 22, 2006
  10. ^ Tuckman, Jo (13 March 2007). "£700 for a child? Guatemalan 'baby factory' deals in misery and hope". The Guardian. p. 25.
  11. ^ a b Police in Nigeria free 32 pregnant teens from 'baby factory;' newborns sold into labor, sex markets, Daily News, June 2, 2011
  12. ^ a b Nigerian 'baby factory' raided, 32 teenage girls freed, AFP, Jun 1, 2011
  13. ^ Police Raids Reveal Alleged Network of 'Baby Farms', Fox News, November 15, 2008
  14. ^ 32 teens freed in Nigeria "baby factory" raid, CBS News, June 2, 2011
  15. ^ Police Arrest 30 Pregnant Teenagers, Proprietor At Anambra Motherless Home, 247ureports, October 15, 2011
  16. ^ Police arrest 30 pregnant teenagers, others at motherless babies home, The Guardian, October 16, 2011
  17. ^ 17 pregnant teenagers arrested in Anambra baby factory, The Nation, October 15, 2011
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