DR: Child trafficking

Migration authorities are investigating three Puerto Rican women, who were detained after attempting to pass Dominican children off as their own. Migration Director Miguel Vasquez Escoto said that Luz Garcia and Luz Torres Rodriguez were arrested at Las Americas International Airport (Santo Domingo), and Mariely Negron Molina was arrested at the Cibao International Airport (Santiago). The three are suspected to be part of a ring of child traffickers. Vasquez says that migration inspectors have been following the trail of the women for months now, which led to the airport arrests as they attempted to take the children abroad. The news story in the Listin Diario does not clarify the motive for the suspicious transporting of the children, for which speculation ranges from the parents of the minors sending for them from abroad to the macabre organ trafficking conjecture, which is unlikely, as the source of the organs needs to be proven in the US health system.

Say it ain't so! It's bad enough that poor children can be trafficked for the sexual use of perverts, but to use them as farm stock for organ harvesting? That's unconscionable!