Nigerian 'baby farm' raided – 32 pregnant girls rescued

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Nigerian police have raided an alleged "baby farm" where teenage mothers were forced to give up their newborns for sale to human traffickers.

Thirty-two pregnant girls were rescued from a maternity home run by a trafficking ring in the southern city of Aba, police said.

The girls, mostly of school age, were allegedly locked up at the Cross Foundation clinic so they could produce babies to be sold for illegal adoption or for use in ritual witchcraft.

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Babies are sold for up to $6,400 each, depending on the sex, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says. Teenagers with unplanned pregnancies are sometimes lured to clinics and then forced to hand over their babies.

The children are often put up for illegal adoption or, in some parts of the country, killed as part of witchcraft rituals because they are thought to make charms more powerful.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jun/02/nigeria-baby-farm-raided-human-trafficking

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slacker. i saw this news report 2 days ago.

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slacker. i saw this news report 2 days ago.

It is no less shocking 2 days later, I presume.

I, for one, can not fathom the mindset that would have to exist in people for them to think something like this is acceptable.

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Horrifying

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Nigerian police have raided an alleged "baby farm" where teenage mothers were forced to give up their newborns for sale to human traffickers.

Thirty-two pregnant girls were rescued from a maternity home run by a trafficking ring in the southern city of Aba, police said.

The girls, mostly of school age, were allegedly locked up at the Cross Foundation clinic so they could produce babies to be sold for illegal adoption or for use in ritual witchcraft.

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Babies are sold for up to $6,400 each, depending on the sex, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says. Teenagers with unplanned pregnancies are sometimes lured to clinics and then forced to hand over their babies.

The children are often put up for illegal adoption or, in some parts of the country, killed as part of witchcraft rituals because they are thought to make charms more powerful.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jun/02/nigeria-baby-farm-raided-human-trafficking

That's Disturbing

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It is no less shocking 2 days later, I presume.

I, for one, can not fathom the mindset that would have to exist in people for them to think something like this is acceptable.

obviously they are republicans keeping the girls from an abortion.

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obviously they are republicans keeping the girls from an abortion.

stfu