Guinea-Bissau Busts Child Trafficking Ring
On March - 8 - 2015
Guinea-Bissau said on Sunday it had dismantled a criminal operation trafficking 54 children to Senegal, where it is believed they would have been forced by Islamic schools to beg on the streets. Police and migration agents rescued the group of children, aged five to 15, on Friday near a border crossing at Cambadju, a village 200 kilometres (125 miles) northeast of the capital Bissau. “Trafficking often happens with the complicity of the parents. In this case it’s parents trying to persuade us to let the children, who were going to a Koran-reading ceremony, cross over,” a local immigration police officer told AFP. READ MORE HERE
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