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[madoka]

LAGOS (AFP) � Nigerian police have raided a home allegedly being used to force teenage girls to have babies that were then offered for sale for trafficking or other purposes, authorities said on Wednesday.

"We stormed the premises of the Cross Foundation in Aba three days ago following a report that pregnant girls aged between 15 and 17 are being made to make babies for the proprietor," said Bala Hassan, police commissioner for Abia state in the country's southeast.

"We rescued 32 pregnant girls and arrested the proprietor who is undergoing interrogation over allegations that he normally sells the babies to people who may use them for rituals or other purposes."

Some of the girls told police they had been offered to sell their babies for between 25,000 and 30,000 naira (192 dollars) depending on the sex of the baby.

The babies would then be sold to buyers for anything from 300,000 naira to one million naira (1,920 and 6,400 dollars) each, according to a state agency fighting human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

The girls were expected to be transferred to the regional NAPTIP offices in Enugu on Wednesday, the regional head Ijeoma Okoronkwo told AFP.

Hassan said the owner of the "illegal baby factory" is likely to face child abuse and human trafficking charges. Buying or selling of babies is illegal in Nigeria and can carry a 14-year jail term.

"We have so many cases going on in court right now," said Okoronkwo.

In 2008, police raids revealed an alleged network of such clinics, dubbed baby "farms" or "factories" in the local press.

Cases of child abuse and people trafficking are common in West Africa. Some children are bought from their families to for use as labour in plantations, mines, factories or as domestic help.

Others are sold into prostitution while a few are either killed or tortured in black magic rituals. NAPTIP says it has also seen a trend of illegal adoption.

"There is a problem of illict adoption and people not knowing the right way to adopt children," said Okoronkwo.

Human trafficking is ranked the third most common crime after economic fraud and drug trafficking in the country, according to UNESCO.

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If raping girls to deliver babies to be tortured and killed in black magic rituals doesn't warrant an immediate bullet in the head, I don't know what does.

[travel zen]

Yep.

Thailand, China, India, Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, even Japan and USA have same problems.

Its a worldwide trend. You can shop for humans people

[bigverne]

[Stout]

I think he's talking about women being trafficked and held against their will to provide sexual services. It's definitely going down in Japan and the States, so I wouldn't be surprised if the other countries he mentioned are in the same boat.

[travel zen]

???

Where have you been the past 11 years son ? All of these countries have baby factories and traffic women as a economic business by professionals who do that all year. Did you know? I'll tell you then.

Research Baby Factories and Human Trafficing on Google. You may add Italy, Greece, Saudi Arabia, France, Rumania, Uzbekistan ...

Enlightenment.

[bigverne]

[Stout]

[travel zen]

Haha. Cute Japanese gals.

There have been numerous stories from ALL the countries listed in the past 10 years. Lemmie see ....

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-goverment-stealing-babies-to-sell-to-americans-as-orphans-2011-5



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking#United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficking_of_children

Many links here will lead to trafficing in specific countries and baby factories.

Biggest factory I remember reading was in Rumania which women were being impregnated for the sole purpose of selling their children overseas. About 2004 - 2006. Lots of stories from the news.

Do you doubt ? The poor have done this since time began.[/url]

[Stout]

Oh, tons of trafficking in Japan that's fer sure, just don't really believe the baby factory thing is happening there.

[bigverne]

So, one example of a Chinese province selling kidnapped babies, and a wiki link about human trafficking in the US. Nothing about any 'baby factories.'

[travel zen]

Believe what you will bud. I don't do links really but keep watching/reading news articles and you'll run across them

[Stout]

I lived in Japan for a number of years. Never came across any shred of information which would even suggest baby factories were going down in the slightest. A lot of other kooky and messed up things, yeah, but not baby factories.

I don't doubt that it is happening in some of those other countries, 'tho.