{"id":4695,"date":"2014-07-23T11:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T11:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2014-07-23T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T11:08:22","slug":"benin-detains-10-people-in-child-trafficking-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/benin-detains-10-people-in-child-trafficking-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin detains 10 people in child trafficking probe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters
\n23 july 2014<\/p>\n

COTONOU (Reuters) – Benin has detained 10 people on suspicions of child-trafficking just weeks after a group in neighboring Niger was held for links to a „baby factory“ ring, police sources said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

While it was not immediately clear if there was a connection between the two cases, the latest detentions point to the persistence of human trafficking across West Africa.<\/p>\n

„There have been around 10 people detained in the civil prison since last week,“ said Ghislaine Bokovo, director of the Benin police force’s central office for child protection.<\/p>\n

Bokovo did not give further details of this case, such as the age of the children, citing judicial secrecy for an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

But she said trafficked children in the region were typically sold either for use in voodoo practices or to crooked adoption agencies.<\/p>\n

Martial Degbessou, from the Porto-Novo police division, said people operating in trafficking networks often purported to be holding children on behalf of a nongovernmental organization.<\/p>\n

He said his division was familiar with the problem of child sales since his town is a stopover point for traffickers on the way to next-door Nigeria.<\/p>\n

„Once they (the children) arrive in Nigeria, they are sold at a very high price, often between 20 million CFA Francs ($41,000) and 30 million CFA Francs ($62,000) per child,“ he said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Authorities in Niger have detained 17 people, including wives of senior politicians, after an investigation by Niger’s police into 30 people suspected of acquiring new-born babies from „baby factories“ in Nigeria, two legal sources said last month.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Samuel Elijah; Writing by Emma Farge; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)<\/p>\n

 
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