{"id":550,"date":"2000-03-31T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2000-03-31T19:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/new\/?p=550"},"modified":"2010-10-15T09:13:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T09:13:07","slug":"vietnam-jails-baby-smugglers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/vietnam-jails-baby-smugglers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam jails baby smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Source: news.bbc.co.uk\/<\/a><\/div>\n

Friday, 31 March, 2000, 12:50 GMT 13:50 UK<\/p>\n

Illegal sales of children went on for six years <\/small><\/div>\n

A court in the northern Vietnamese province of Ninh Binh has sentenced 12 people for their roles in selling children for foreign adoption.<\/p>\n

The leader of the ring, Vu Tien Manh, a senior official in the provincial Justice Department, received the longest term, of four and a half years in jail.<\/p>\n

The defendants, who include three women, also face fines totalling 376 million dong ($27,000).<\/p>\n

The judge in the trial said the group bought more than 170 new-born babies from unmarried Vietnamese women and desperate families in several northern provinces and then sold them to foreigners.<\/p>\n

The sales went on for six years, until the ring was uncovered in 1998.<\/p>\n

Payments<\/strong><\/p>\n

The judge said many of the children, each sold for between $1,000 and $1,500, were adopted by people from Belgium or France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The gang paid pregnant women between between $200 and $700 for their babies.<\/div>\n

Adoptive parents were told that the children had been abandoned by their mothers.<\/p>\n

Nine people were convicted in January on similar charges of child peddling in the southern province of An Giang, in the country’s first trial of this kind.<\/p>\n

The French were the main adopters of Vietnamese children until 1999, when Paris stopped the programme because of concerns over Vietnamese adoption procedures.<\/p>\n

In February, France and Vietnam signed a convention on co-operation in adoption matters which, when ratified, will allow legal adoptions to resume.
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