Recently in New Delhi, India, police arrested a grandfather that reportedly sold his infant grandson on Facebook. However it goes much deeper than that. Around 90,000 children go missing per year on average in India. After police received news of the infant they acted fast in search of him. The mother of the child had contacted police and stated that her father-in-law told her the baby had died and was taken away by the hospital staff. The truth behind the incident was that the grandfather made a deal with a man that planned to smuggle the baby out of the nursing home. The economic status of the families that have missing children often plays a disturbing role in the treatment of the cases. There are many suspicions that members of the families could have sold out their children in order to get money, as desperate as they were or are. The use of children for labor, slavery, sex or adoption is on the rise. However recently a law has past prohibiting any and all forms of human trafficking.
Child protection experts call this the norm. "Out of 10 children who are going missing every hour, only one case is being investigated", "These children are all being put into various kinds of exploitation. And a child who is being sold on Facebook is not even part of this figure."
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/05/child_trafficking_in_india_on_the_rise_partner/
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