Baby Thieving Ring Broken Up
Posted: Saturday, November 07, 2009
by Joel Hendon
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It appears that, anything you may desire, can and will be gotten for you if you have the money to pay. Authorities in Mexico City have arrested three doctors, one nurse and one receptionist in a private hospital on charges of stealing newborns and selling them. Unbelievable? I have long since stopped being shocked at anything I read.
According to the Attorney General's office there has been a couple and a woman arrested also on charges of buying two infant girls and registering them as their own.
One of the mothers, Vanesa Edith Castillo Guzman, told police when her baby was born, she did not get to see her but she heard her cry. She was later told that the baby had been sent to the Moctezuma Infants Hospital due to a respiratory insufficiency. Then later still was told that the baby had died and was cremated. When she asked for the baby's ashes or at least a death certificate, she was simply told that the documents would be forthcoming.
Some time later, Ms Castillo received an email from the son of the clinic's owner which informed her that her baby was alive an that Dr. Ortiz had sold her to a couple in Mexico state.
After considerable detective work, they found the couple but when DNA tests showed that the baby was not that of Ms Castillo, it later developed the couple had purchased the baby but was one from another mother. They also continued the investigation which led to a psychologist named Cinthia Nayeli Perez who admitted that she had paid 15,000 pesos for a baby girl who ultimately turned out to be the daughter of Ms. Castillo.
This case, although small and discovered apparently early in their activities, is far from the only such cases in some Latin American countries. I remember, as I am sure some of my readers will, the incident which occurred in Guatemala in June of 1994 and was reported on 20/20. Although not nearly all of the information came out on the 20/20 program, it was indeed a big" business there in Guatemala art that time. These poor people whose poverty was extreme, in some cases would sell their children for small amounts to crooks who would then sell them to wealthy people from the United States and other countries.
But, this kind of scheme was not all, some would actually steal babies. Read this blurb from Antipas Ministries:
"...foreign adoptions of Guatemalan children had mushroomed in recent years - and that behind this phenomenon was a network of baby brokers, lawyers, politicians, police officers, and even officials in the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare who offered Guatemalan children to North Americans for prices ranging up to $15,000 per child."
But the 20/20 report concerned two American women who had flown there to pick up two babies which had been arranged for them. When there they were brutally attacked by mobs of angry people who accused them of buying stolen babies. One woman was injured so badly she was in a coma and may have died, although I cannot find record of that.
Some of the crowds had been informed by others that the women were taking the babies back to the America where they would be dissected and sold as "baby parts".
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Makes you wonder. There are so many babies here so why go to South America? I believe the world is a good place. the MSM makes you think it is a far worse place than it really is.Thankis for commenting Jim. I too, believe there are more good people than evil people. The problem is, you only hear about the evil.
Oh my goodness, Joel,What a sad, frightening and horrific story. You said you are no longer shocked. I feel the same way and yet when I read your article, I was reeling from the injustice and pain that these mothers must suffer. The world is cruel, isn't it?Thanks for sharing this oneThanks Nancy, yes the world does seem to sour on some at times. In any such transaction with different countries, their authorities should be involved. And even then, it might not be too safe.
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