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Iraqi Babies for Sale: People Trafficking Crisis Grows as Gangs Exploit Poor Families and Corrupt System
World  (tags: children, child trafficking, children abducted, Corruption, iraq, paedophiles violence, war, usa, buying infants, babies, traffickers, use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, sexual workers )

Madalena
- 240 days ago - guardian.co.uk
o At least 150 children a year sold for £200 to £4,000 o Some bartered youngsters become sex abuse victims Corruption, weak law enforcement and porous borders are compounding a growing child trafficking crisis in Iraq, according to officials and aid a
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Just Carole (423)
Wednesday April 8, 2009, 7:06 pm

Thank you, Mada, for promoting awareness of the horrifying, and far-reaching, collateral damages of war.
 

Madalena Lobao-Tello (448)
Thursday April 9, 2009, 12:39 pm
Carole
War is terrible and the consequences of war are still more terrible
 

Suri S. (41)
Thursday April 9, 2009, 3:45 pm
The american invasion created a political ,social and humanitarian disaster. Iraquis seem to be enduring more suffering now than when Hussein ruled.
 

Aletta Kraan (31)
Thursday April 9, 2009, 3:58 pm
Terrible , I rather die than give up one of my children !!
 

Teresa del Castillo (1599)
Friday April 10, 2009, 2:07 pm
http://books.google.com/books?id=Iftb0S1giTgC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=organ+traffic+of+mexican+children&source=bl&ots=bNWxEyX3gA&sig=6pM0lnrWeFSmFf5O7KAaEhmFMro&hl=en&ei=w7TfSYDSGenmnQfX3qm2CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6
 

Teresa del Castillo (1599)
Friday April 10, 2009, 2:08 pm
I hope thiese children are not used for organ trafficking like some evil people do in rich countries with Mexican children that disappear forever.
 
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