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BBC NEWS Friday, 12 November, 2004 'Miracle baby' a victim – judge Kenyan police allege the Gilbert Deya Ministries is an international baby-snatching ring and have asked the British government to extradite Mr Deya. They say their investigation revolves around the disappearance of babies from Nairobi's Pumwani Maternity Hospital and involves suspects in Britain, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya. In September they took 20 of Mr Deya's "miracle babies" into care in Nairobi after they were found to have no genetic link to the women claiming to be their mothers. The pastor denies involvement in child trafficking and his lawyer...

In just the past two weeks, international child trafficking has been the subject of many news stories: Recently, a woman in Colorado was charged with selling her 5-month old son to a couple for $1,500, part of which allegedly was used as the down payment on a used car. During the President's present swing through Latin America, he will visit Guatemala, one of the top sources for adoptive babies and corruption in baby trafficking. The government of Denmark is putting into action a four-year plan to combat trafficking into its country, with children as a focus. The minister for justice...

Group accused of forcing Honduran women to work in New Jersey bars as slaves NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Women as young as 14 were smuggled into the United States from rural Honduran villages and put to work in three northern New Jersey bars, drinking and dancing with customers to repay the smugglers, who beat the women if they objected, according to a federal indictment handed up Thursday. Some of the women were raped by the smugglers, and those who became pregnant were forced to take abortion-inducing drugs so they could stay on the job, enticing bar patrons to buy more...

300 African boys vanish in London Friday, May 13, 2005 Posted: 1129 GMT (1929 HKT) LONDON, England -- Hundreds of young African boys have disappeared from schools in London, according to police investigating the murder of a child whose torso was found in the River Thames. To try to identify the body, Metropolitan Police officers asked every education authority in London how many black boys aged between 4 and 7 had gone missing. In one three-month period between July and September 2001, some 300 children had disappeared. There was nothing to suggest that they had been murdered, but a lack...

Fears of trade in children as 300 boys disappear By Alistair Foster, Evening Standard 13 May 2005 Scotland Yard today revealed it has been unable to trace all but two of 300 black boys aged four to seven reported missing from school in a three-month period. That is 100 boys a month and they waited this long????????

Hundreds of African boys have disappeared from London schools, police investigating the murder of a boy whose torso was left in the Thames have said. Scotland Yard asked London education authorities how many black boys aged four to seven had vanished from school. Between July and September 2001, 300 had disappeared, and police fear thousands may go missing annually. Child welfare experts say the figures hint at the scale of child trafficking, sometimes for labour or benefit fraud. A previous BBC investigation found some African children were being held by their parents' creditors, so they could claim extra benefits. 'Lost...

This story may contain information upsetting to sensitive or young readers. In September 2001 a gruesome discovery was made in London's River Thames. The hideously mutilated torso of a small black boy was found floating through the city. The boy's arms, legs, and head had all been hacked off. So began a stranger-than-fiction detective story that led U.K. investigators into a macabre netherworld of witchcraft and child sacrifice. Murder squad detectives had nothing to go on: There were no reports of a missing child and no witnesses or crime scene. No face, fingerprints, or dental records remained that could help...

President Bush recently made a speech that didn’t receive much attention. It wasn’t about one of those issues dear to the media’s heart, like the war in Iraq, so it slipped under their radar. Only a handful of articles were written about the speech, and it received very little TV coverage. I think it deserves much more attention than that, because the subject of that speech is one of the biggest moral issues of our time. Addressing the National Training Conference on Human Trafficking in Tampa, Florida, the president talked about steps he’s been taking to stop human trafficking. You...

21 held in child trafficking raids Dawn operation launched by detectives investigating Thames torso mystery By David Barrett and Tom Whitehead, PA News 29 July 2003 A group of suspected child traffickers was arrested in London today in a dramatic dawn offensive involving more than 200 police officers. A total of 21 people were detained in the operation launched by detectives investigating the murder of a young boy whose torso was found floating in the River Thames. Police believe they have smashed a crime network responsible for smuggling African children in to the UK. Officers swooped on nine addresses in...