{"id":294032,"date":"2023-06-29T16:38:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294032"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:50:16","slug":"trafficker-smuggle-infant-ukraine-organ-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trafficker-smuggle-infant-ukraine-organ-transplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Man caught trying to smuggle infant out of Ukraine to &#8216;sell for organ transplants&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A charity worker has been arrested in Ukraine after he was caught attempting to take an 11-month-old baby out of the country to \u201csell for organ transplants,\u201d according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12242035\/Evil-child-trader-caught-trying-child-Ukraine-sell-organ-transplants.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Mail<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 43-year-old man is being called an \u201cevil child trader\u201d after he allegedly paid $1,000 to the boy\u2019s mother, telling her he would make sure the boy was safely adopted in a European Union nation away from the current war waged on Ukraine by Russia. He told the mother he would give her another $4,000 for the baby to bring him to safety when he was actually planning to sell the baby to traffickers for $25,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"molvideoplayer\" title=\"MailOnline Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/embed\/video\/2968571.html\" width=\"698\" height=\"573\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Video shows the man and his female accomplice being detained as they attempted to cross the border into Slovakia. Sadly, according to the Daily Mail, while this boy was saved, the man previously sold three other children to traffickers after telling parents he was finding them adoptive families. According to journalist Vitaliy Glagola, the man \u201chad been looking for parents who were ready to sell their child for organs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The baby\u2019s mother in this case contacted law enforcement and the Security Service of Ukraine secret service and border guards were able to stop the man at a checkpoint after receiving \u201coperational information that this was not for adoption to the EU, and the child was to have been sold to organ transplanters,\u201d said Glagola. He is now being held in custody as an investigation launches, and he faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United States Institute of Peace <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usip.org\/publications\/2022\/06\/russias-war-has-created-human-trafficking-crisis-says-un-envoy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2022 that Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine has created a human trafficking crisis in which women and children are being exploited and sold. Pramila Patten, the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, called it \u201ca crisis within a crisis.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The majority of refugees are women and children who are \u2018easy targets\u2019 of criminals who promise them safety and free transportation in order to get them away from official checkpoints, said charity workers on the Polish-Ukranian border.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less than a year ago, a teenage Ukrainian girl believed to have intellectual disabilities was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/courtandcrime\/arid-40927028.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">saved<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from trafficking after she arrived at an airport with no identification. She told a social worker that the man she was with was her uncle, then she claimed he was her cousin before it was revealed that she was not related to him at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> She is one of an \u201cunprecedented\u201d number of unaccompanied children arriving in Ireland, according to Irish child and family agency Tusla.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/target-petition\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=lan_website&amp;utm_content=target_petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-292702\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Target petition\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized-500x129.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LA23MAY_TargetPetition_resized.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A charity worker has been arrested in Ukraine after he was caught attempting to take an 11-month-old baby out of the country to \u201csell for organ transplants,\u201d according to the Daily Mail. The 43-year-old man is being called an \u201cevil child trader\u201d after he allegedly paid $1,000 to the boy\u2019s mother, telling her he would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":294033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Man caught trying to smuggle infant out of Ukraine to &#039;sell for organ transplants&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The man allegedly paid $1k to the boy&#039;s mother, who promised a better life, then promised $4k more while planning to sell him for $25k.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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