Child harvesting
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 misled or lied to so they permanently give away the child for adoption without any hope of ever re-connecting with the child.[4]
Baby factory
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A 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
- Child laundering
- Child trafficking
- Child-selling
- Child labour
- Trafficking of children
- Commercial sexual exploitation of children
- List of international adoption scandals
- Human trafficking in Nigeria
References
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- ↑ International Baby Harvesting and Adoption-Abduction
- ↑ Selected Works of David M. Smolin
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Nigeria 'baby farm' girls rescued by Abia state police, BBC, June 1, 2011
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Nigerian baby factory raided, News24, October 16, 2011
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Nigerian 'baby farm' raided – 32 pregnant girls rescued, The Guardian, June 2, 2011
- ↑ Thai Police Free 14 Women From Illegal Baby-Breeding Farm In Bangkok, The Huffington Post, February 24, 2011
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 The shocking truth about the baby factories, Mail Online, December 22, 2006
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- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Police in Nigeria free 32 pregnant teens from 'baby factory;' newborns sold into labor, sex markets, Daily News, June 2, 2011
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Nigerian 'baby factory' raided, 32 teenage girls freed, AFP, Jun 1, 2011
- ↑ Police Raids Reveal Alleged Network of 'Baby Farms', Fox News, November 15, 2008
- ↑ 32 teens freed in Nigeria "baby factory" raid, CBS News, June 2, 2011
- ↑ Police Arrest 30 Pregnant Teenagers, Proprietor At Anambra Motherless Home, 247ureports, October 15, 2011
- ↑ Police arrest 30 pregnant teenagers, others at motherless babies home, The Guardian, October 16, 2011
- ↑ 17 pregnant teenagers arrested in Anambra baby factory, The Nation, October 15, 2011
External links
- Baby factories: How pregnancies, deliveries are framed at Vanguard
- Video: The Nigerian Connection II (18:15-23:10) of Al Jazeera
- Baby factories in Nigeria: Starting the discussion toward a national prevention policy in Trauma, Violence and Abuse Journal,July 2015.
- Baby factories taint surrogacy in Nigeria in Reproductive Biomedicine Online Journal, October, 2015
- Infant Trafficking and Baby Factories: A New Tale of Child Abuse in Nigeria in Child Abuse Review Journal, November 2015
