Doctors Arrested for Faking Infants' Deaths to Sell Them

categories: Human Trafficking Awareness, Human Trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, Trafficking in Children

Published November 06, 2009 @ 07:00AM PT

Three doctors and one nurse were arrested just outside of Mexico City yesterday for a child trafficking operation that involved fabricating the deaths of newborns and then selling the babies on the black market for profit. Whether the children were sold to parents desperate for a child or for more nefarious purposes is not yet clear. Nor is whether any of the infants were trafficked into the U.S.

What kind of sick and heartless beasts came up with this strategy? Did it start around the water cooler like this:

Evil Doctor 1: Hey, I'd love to make some money to supplement my doctor's salary, which is not quite enough to buy those jet skis. Anyone got any ideas?

Evil Doctor 2: Well, we've got all these babies just lying around the hospital, why don't we try selling some of them?

Evil Nurse: Who wants to buy a baby? Babies are expensive to take care of.

Evil Doctor 2: Oh, lots of people want to buy babies for all sorts of reasons.

Some couples who can't have children on their own get so desperate and frustrated with the adoption system, that they're willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a baby on the black market. Other people buy babies to use them as slaves, abuse them sexually, or harvest their organs.

Evil Doctor 3: But what about the women who come into the hospital to have these children? Won't they wonder what happened to their children?

Evil Doctor 2: We'll tell them their babies are died once we took them to get cleaned up, and if they want to see the body, we'll tell them we already cremated it.

Evil Doctor 3: But won't the mothers be upset that we cremated their dead babies' bodies before talking to them? Won't they try and sue us or something?

Evil Nurse: Come on, this isn't America! Besides, we'll just target poor women without a lot of resources or family support. That way it will be harder for them to try and say something.

Evil Doctor 1: Great ideas, everyone. Now let's start faking the deaths of infants, lying to their grieving mothers, and then selling the babies to the highest bidder, no matter how unscrupulous. This is a good plan and there is no way we'll ever get caught.

Fortunately, the doctors and nurse who developed this trafficking scheme did get caught. They were discovered selling an infant whose mother was told her child died shortly after being born to another woman for $15,000 pesos, or about $1300. Additionally, police discovered that a married couple had paid the hospital to falsify birth records for the child they purchased. This case is another sad example of the ease with which poor women and their children are exploited for profit.

Photo credit: Jorge Ravines Fotografias

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This is a work of a non conscience man...

Posted by Leon Jackson on 11/06/2009 @ 07:48AM PT
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This is a work of a non conscience man...

Posted by Leon Jackson on 11/06/2009 @ 07:48AM PT
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unfortunately this shows you just how corrupt this world is.

Posted by Jessica Justice on 11/06/2009 @ 08:34AM PT
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This never could happen in a "natural" world, free from all the nonsense endured throughout history....

Posted by Justin Richardson on 11/06/2009 @ 04:06PM PT
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I'll be honest - I'm more surprised at the relative infrequency of such things as compared to other countries, and I find it hard to consider these doctors particularly "evil" when the majority of people I know wouldn't think twice about doing the same thing to nonhuman babies - paying to have them stolen from their mothers, whose reproductive systems are being incessantly exploited just so Little Sammy can have a cute puppy for a few weeks before he gets thrown out onto the street for growing to big and uncute.

Posted by Luella - on 11/07/2009 @ 09:22AM PT
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Adoptees Rights Knight Australia :: In 1965 the state of Queensland, among others, introduced an official adoption practice known as Rapid Adoption. This was the procedure whereby a married couple, having sadly just given birth to a stillborn child, were immediately offered the option to adopt a 'replacement' baby but this had to be done swiftly so the mother-to-be could continue to bond and nurture. If the couple chose to adopt they were rapidly supplied a baby but were led to believe that the child had already been placed for adoption. However, to facilitate this 'rapid' process, it was the decision of the government and the medical profession that the best measure would be to simply TAKE the babies born to 'unwed' mothers - and tell the 'unwed' mother that HER child had been stillborn! This filthy government adoption secret was just ONE of the practices deemed 'unethical' and 'unlawful' by a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into past adoption practices in 1998-2000. Links to court documents from this inquiry and more can be found at: http://sites.google.com/site/adopteesrightsknight/for-the-record

YOU SIMPLY CAN NOT STEAL OTHER PEOPLE'S BABIES - NO MATTER WHAT THE GAIN. THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE KIDNAPPING OF MORE THAN 100 000 BABIES. JOIN US NOW AND ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN US TOO - HELP US IN OUR CAMPAIGN FOR A NATIONAL INQUIRY TODAY.

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Posted by Trudi Stacey on 11/11/2009 @ 05:58PM PT
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Amanda has been a full-time abolitionist for six years. During that time, she has created reports, documentaries and training materials on human trafficking in the United States and around the world.