Children Kidnap
Increases in Guatemala
Recovering a newborn
baby kidnapped one month
ago to his mother, gives
new evidences of gangs
involved in children
traffic for irregular
adoption.
Jonathan Alejandro
Martinez was found in a
children's home owned by
a non-governmental
organization, allegedly
devoted to protect
vulnerable people and
with a new identity
granted by a
municipality close to
this capital.
The finding took place
after one of the women
who assaulted Cristina
Sol, Jonathan's mother,
on June 20 was
identified, according to
the authorities.
Four persons, among them
a lawyer in charge of
negotiating adoptions
with foreign families,
were arrested for the
events however they were
released on 700 and 3
thousand dollars bail.
Nidia Aguilar,
Children's defender at
the Human Rights
Attorney's Office told
Prensa Latina how those
gangs operates to make
the children situation
become legal and give
them to couples, mostly
from US.
The babies, kidnapped or
bought to their parents,
are registered in a
small municipality civil
registry, inside the
country and them
presented to a minors'
judge who declares them
vulnerable and for that
reason can be adopted.
Guatemala is a paradise
of children's adoption
because it is relatively
easier to make the
procedure, reduced to a
simple notarial action.
This situation could
change after The Hague
Convention, regarding
international adoption,
enters into effect,
which was recently
ratified by the Congress
of the Republic. |
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