GT News: Prison Term for Child Trafficking

Translated below by Marie, Guatadopt.com

Going To Prison for Trying To Sell Children on the Internet

By: Jessica Gramajo, Sunday, Siglo 21

Link:http://www.sigloxxi.com/noticias/23609

Two women who were in custody were sent last night to prison by order of the Judge on duty, Angel Contreras, for trying to sell two children. The Prosecutor's Office against trafficking in persons sought to prosecute the women for the crimes of trafficking, conspiracy and unlawful association.

The accused tried to sell them through the Internet, a child of 2 years of age and their biosilbing, another child who is about to be born.

The detainees, who demanded 5 thousand euros for each child, are Karen Evelyn Velazquez de Galindo, 42-year-old, and mother of the infants, Gloria Elizabeth Giron Velasquez, 28.
The operation was aborted after a warning that was received by representatives of Casa Alianza Spain by two Spanish journalists, who conducted an investigation posing as parents who wanted to adopt a child from Guatemala.

The local headquarters of Casa Alianza denounced the fact to the Public Prosecutor's Office last Thursday, according to the prosecutor Juan Jose Mendez.
"The captured offered several children, among them Marlon Velasquez Alejandro Giron of 2 years of age and his brother, who was not born yet," said Claudia Rivera, director of Casa Alianza Guatemala.Guatemala.

5 THOUSAND EUROS:
=for each child, that is what the women were asking from the alleged adoptive parents who were Spaniards.

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For full story see Link: http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2008/octubre/05/267922.html

Translated below :

".......Reporters investigating the purchase of children from Latin America, viewed several Web sites, where they scored their data, and were posing as an interested family.

But only response received from Guatemala. Velasquez sent them a video illustrating her experience in the field and how she had delivered a child in Panama.

"The mode of operation was to take the women who was pregnant with the child to be born abroad, and then that the adoptive parents to register it as their own," said Juan Jose Mendez, of the Human Trafficking Unit of the Attorney Against Organized Crime.

According to Mendez, Velasquez would have 10 years of engaging in this business, but it was until this year when they started with this method for selling the minors, because of the new law on adoptions.