This is an old news story, but it's so positively sick, I had to blog about it.
To tell you the truth, I watched a news report about the Baby trafficking business in Greece. It's just absolutely insane. Bulgarian moms SELL their babies to Greek traffickers. The Traffickers then sell the babies to Greek parents waiting to adopt. Greece has a very low fertility rate, and very few babies waiting to be adopted. So parents turn to Baby Traffickers.
The article I quoted is about baby trafficking by organized crime. Just insane. Bulgarian women-- of Roma descent-- were told that there were jobs waiting for them in Greece. Once in Greece, these women were held hostage until their babies were born.
They are all from Bulgaria and all have the same story to tell. "We came here to work," says Yanna, "Slavka sent us here." But there was no job.
Instead the four women were held in a squalid flat in Lamia by a criminal gang waiting for them to give birth. The gang planned to sell their babies to local Greek couples potentially earning up to £20,000 (30,000 Euros) for each child.
"I was so miserable... and so stressed that the baby kept turning around inside me," says Yanna of her two-week ordeal locked inside the flat.
Apparently lots of people turn a blind eye to this.
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