Tuesday, March 13, 2007
£700 for a child? Guatemalan 'baby factory' deals in misery and hope - Guardian (U.K.)
...Teenager Glendy's story is one of thousands that expose the seedier side of the business. Eighteen years old, dumped by her married boyfriend and with below-average intelligence, Glendy described how she was contacted while she was pregnant by some people who promised her 10,000 Quetzales (about £700) for her baby. Desperately poor, she accepted the offer.
Her baby was delivered by a midwife in the provincial city of Retalhuleu. Mother and son spent one night together and then he was taken away.
They were briefly reunited a few days later when they boarded a bus bound for the capital with a female minder. The infant was handed over to another woman at a petrol station en route. ... But, having second thoughts about giving her baby away ... the minder slipped out of the building and disappeared taking with him the secret of where Glendy's baby was hidden.
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Last year 4,943 Guatemalan children - more than 1% of the country's newborns - were adopted by foreigners, the vast majority of them Americans. ...
...Teenager Glendy's story is one of thousands that expose the seedier side of the business. Eighteen years old, dumped by her married boyfriend and with below-average intelligence, Glendy described how she was contacted while she was pregnant by some people who promised her 10,000 Quetzales (about £700) for her baby. Desperately poor, she accepted the offer.
Her baby was delivered by a midwife in the provincial city of Retalhuleu. Mother and son spent one night together and then he was taken away.
They were briefly reunited a few days later when they boarded a bus bound for the capital with a female minder. The infant was handed over to another woman at a petrol station en route. ... But, having second thoughts about giving her baby away ... the minder slipped out of the building and disappeared taking with him the secret of where Glendy's baby was hidden.
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Last year 4,943 Guatemalan children - more than 1% of the country's newborns - were adopted by foreigners, the vast majority of them Americans. ...
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