January 4, 2005
«Tsunami Orphans» for sale or adoption by SMS (2)
Following up on an earlier post today, The Times of India reports that United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has confirmed that human traffickers are targeting the children made homeless or orphaned by the tsunami disaster in the devastated Indonesian province of Aceh.
"UNICEF's spokesman for Indonesia, John Budd, said that there had been a confirmed case of a child being smuggled out of Aceh to the nearby North Sumatran capital of Medan for trafficking purposes.
He said UNICEF's Malaysian office had received an SMS on Tuesday advertising 300 orphans from Aceh aged between three and 10 who were for sale.
To prevent trafficking, the Indonesian government has also placed a ban on any child under the age of 16 leaving Aceh without their parents. It has also banned adoptions in Aceh for the same reasons."
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