Bulgarian baby sellers arrested in Greece

NOV 19, 2011 – 6 HOURS AGO by Katerina Nikolas – comments

Heraklion – Six people were arrested on Friday for alleged involvement in the sale of a 25-day-old baby for 12,000 euros, on the Greek Island of Crete. The illegal adoption involved the sale of a Bulgarian baby arranged by Bulgarian intermediaries.

The burgeoning black market sale of Bulgarian babies on the Greek Island of Crete was dealt another blow on Friday when six people were arrested. According to Athens News the Bulgarian mother of a 25 day-old-baby , along with three Bulgarian intermediaries, were caught in the act of attempting to sell the infant to a Greek couple on the island for 12,000 euros ($16,000).
Ekathimerini reported that Cretan police had been monitoring a suspected illegal adoption ring and were able to catch the Bulgarians in the act of attempting to receive payment. According to a study by Bijc it is almost impossible to make a judicial case against baby sellers unless they are caught at the very moment of exchanging payment. Bijc issued a report on the illegal business in 2004 but demand is still on-going despite millions being spent to put an end to the trade. (more…)

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The scandal of orphanages in tourist resorts and disaster zones that rent children to fleece gullible Westerners

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk 
By IAN BIRRELL
10th April 2011

As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war zones, Jennifer Morgan is not someone easily shaken. But even she admits she was shocked by some of the orphanages she visited recently in Haiti.
‘Outside it is a sunny day. Then you step inside the walls of an orphanage and realise that the children there have been exposed to rapes, severe beatings, emotional and mental trauma,’ she said. It was even more disturbing, she added, than the damaged children she came across amid the deadly mayhem of Darfur.
But perhaps the most troubling thing is that these tragic scenes in Haiti are not unusual. In dozens of places around the world, unregulated orphanages have become a boom business trading off Western guilt. Our desire to help is backfiring in the most dreadful fashion. (more…)

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Bulgarian, Greek police break up baby trafficking ring

Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news 
By staff writers From: NewsCore January 26, 2011 3:40AM

BULGARIAN and Greek police have arrested 14 people who allegedly trafficked newborn babies to Greece, Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said yesterday.

Five people were arrested in Bulgaria and nine others in Greece for allegedly organizing the illegal adoption of at least 14 Bulgarian babies, primarily of Roma origin, Tsvetanov said. (more…)

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Un trafic de bébés découvert en Bulgarie

Date:2010-10-04

La police bulgare a démantelé un réseau de trafic de nouveau-nés bulgares vers la Grèce, a annoncé le ministère de l’Intérieur mardi. (more…)

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52 children adopted have gone

01 Oct 2007
Mariana Iancu

County Department of Child Protection Constanta advertising do not know anything of the fate of 52 children who
been adopted internationally in the period 1997-2000.
Chief Directorate, Peter Dinica, said the Romanian Office for Adoption (ORA) has not submitted any report
postadoptie, as was the procedure. The 52 children are only part of the total 422 that were adopted internationally
in the range noted. They arrived in Canada (1), Cyprus (1), France (3), Greece (6), Israel (27), U.S. (7) and Italy (7).
Representatives of the Romanian Office for Adoption confirmed that these reports were received, despite insistence by
countries where children were adopted. (more…)

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The shocking truth about the baby factories

By NATALIE CLARKE
Last updated at 22:00 22 december 2006

Marie Golby with the Romanian baby she stole

EXCLUSIVE: This is the first picture of the British woman with the Romanian baby she stole. And as this investigation reveals, countless other children are being bred to order in Mafia-run baby farms:

The Baby Factory is run with brutal efficiency. As soon as an order has been placed, a woman is chosen to produce a baby. Only the beautiful girls are selected to join the production line.

The customers will, the owners of the factory know all too well, pay a higher price for an angelic-looking baby. The blue-eyed ones are particularly prized. (more…)

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Parchetul ia la bani marunti adoptiile internationale/Prosecutor takes to change international adoptions

Date:2006-08-16

Google translation:

Scandal caused by the following two years, the statement that Emma Nicholson inculpate tolerance illegal international adoptions by Romanian authorities reached again in actuality: the Romanian Office for Adoptions before the Prosecutor General in connection with 11 such cases, scrolling parallel investigations in 29 other cases of illegal adoptions. Contact telephone representatives Public Ministry confirmed the existence of these files to Department prosecuting and criminology, and the Directorate of National Anticoruptie announces that it will check …

In February 2004, immediately after the European rapporteur Emma Nicholson claims that, in Romania, has developed an international market of illegal adoptions, the National Prosecutor Anticoruptie (current NAD) announces the start checking all the 150 cases, prosecutors investigated by inspectors from the Ministry public on how the law was respected in the past 10 years. Specifically, prosecutors have reviewed the cases of non-law in cases of international adoptions by the magistrates and people who had responsibilities in carrying out acts of those folders. (more…)

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Prosecutor takes to money in international adoptions

Source: Curierul National
16 August 2006

Google translation:

Prosecutor takes to change international adoptions
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Scandal caused by the following two years, the statement that Emma Nicholson inculpate tolerance illegal international adoptions by Romanian authorities reached again in actuality: the Romanian Office for Adoptions before the Prosecutor General in connection with 11 such cases, scrolling parallel investigations in 29 other cases of illegal adoptions. Contact telephone representatives Public Ministry confirmed the existence of these files to Department prosecuting and criminology, and the Directorate of National Anticoruptie announces that it will check … (more…)

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Greece’s Black-Market Babies Come Home

This article was published on 22.09.1996 in the Seattle Times.

Stolen Children Demand To Know Their Histories. ATHENS, Greece – Forty-one years ago a frightened Greek child of 5, stolen from her mother, landed in America to begin a new life. (more…)

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