Network specialized in illegitimate infants' trading disbanded by security forces

Investigations carried out last week by the local security forces of the locality of Ain Al fekroun in the province of Oum Al Bouagui (eastern Algeria) led to the dismantling of a dangerous network made up of 10 individuals including two midwives, specialized in the trading of illegitimate infants.

• First elements of the investigation revealed that the network was operating in several neighboring provinces. They were selling new born babies in return of huge sums of money to couples who couldn’t have babies on their own.
• According to our sources, a couple has paid important sums to corrupt some individuals and register their “bought” two babies as being their own. The two illegitimate babies (a boy and a girl) were born from unmarried women who gave birth to two their infants thanks to the complicity of a midwife.
• Both the man and his wife were remanded in custody while the other culprits were released pending the completion of the police investigation.