The United Nations has issued a report on child trafficking in Haiti after the earthquake, according to which children were allegedly sold there for only $ 1.20. Some of those people are ignorant gelandt in the care of European families, others have been forced into prostitution. Persons acting as representatives of aid agencies or perceived Relatives were to appear, as well as unscrupulous Auslandshaitianer had tens of thousands of children in the emergency camps in its sights. The UN Kindernotfonds finance for this reason, the Brigade for the Protection of Minors / BPM, together with the police monitored the stock and holds itself to vulnerable children on the lookout.
More than a million people had become homeless by the earthquake in January 2010, and 76 percent of the population live on less than $ 2.50 per day. Parents in need of money therefore are easy prey when they thought their child could live a better life elsewhere. Melissa Nau, a 38-year-old mother of five children with learning and physical disabilities, sold four children of 50 Gourdes, converted $ 1.20. She lived in a tent city in Port-au-Prince, when a man she met only when Jacques offered to buy the children. The money was only for a few months. The case of Melissa and her remaining son, the ten-month-old Roland came to the ears of UNICEF, the organization brought the two into a safe house. BPM found that the other four children were assigned to incorrect data, so they could be adopted through an international agency illegally to Europe.
"Well-meaning parents in the U.S. and Europe have no idea that children are kidnapped in the camps, stolen and bought", told Unicef. Moise said Francoise BPM moreover, that human trafficking in Haiti had always been a problem since the earthquake have still been increasing steadily. His view that there are many of the camp with more than 80,000 families. Since an accurate screening is almost impossible. Currently, it formed from volunteers who monitored as a civilian patrols the camp. Before the earthquake, had been estimated by officials that 2,000 children are kidnapped each year and smuggled out of the country. Since BPM Unicef funded in April, had been counted at border crossings 7,000 children, of whom 1400 had no legal travel documents. 35 people were arrested Kidnappingverdacht. Law enforcement is problematic, since there is no law against human trafficking in Haiti.
own translation of the Australian original: heike fritz
http://www.theage.com.au/world/traffickers-sell-haitian-children---for-just-120-20110221-1b2gl.html
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