NewsWhore
07-17-2009, 04:40 PM
Members of the Specialized Border Corps (Cesfront) have arrested six Haitians who were allegedly members of a gang that smuggled Haitian children to the DR to beg for their profit. Cesfront said that three Haitians, Joseph Dorsevil, 30, Martha Jean Guise, 27 and Atuan Pierre, 24, of the group of 6, were arrested while they were transporting 10 minors. The other two had hidden another 14 children, aged between 2 and 13, who were being transported to Santiago de los Caballeros.
According to Cesfront, at least Martha Jean Guise is known to have been involved in this type of crime before, as she appears in the biometric archives that the US authorities installed at the Dajabon border crossing.
The military authorities say that the smugglers charged the children's parents large sums of money to transport the children to the DR, promising they would put them in school and that the children would be earning money at the same time.
Instead, the minors are taken to Santiago and other cities in the Cibao region where they are sent to beg on streets. They sleep in abandoned lots and other high-risk areas.
The children said they were from Ouanaminthe, Otout du Nord and Limonade.
The Solidaridad Fronteriza organization headed by Father Regino Martinez and other humanitarian organizations have expressed concern about the increasing traffic in Haitian children to Dominican territory, as reported in the Listin Diario. Martinez has criticized the fact that this has been happening with the complicity of the armed forces.
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According to Cesfront, at least Martha Jean Guise is known to have been involved in this type of crime before, as she appears in the biometric archives that the US authorities installed at the Dajabon border crossing.
The military authorities say that the smugglers charged the children's parents large sums of money to transport the children to the DR, promising they would put them in school and that the children would be earning money at the same time.
Instead, the minors are taken to Santiago and other cities in the Cibao region where they are sent to beg on streets. They sleep in abandoned lots and other high-risk areas.
The children said they were from Ouanaminthe, Otout du Nord and Limonade.
The Solidaridad Fronteriza organization headed by Father Regino Martinez and other humanitarian organizations have expressed concern about the increasing traffic in Haitian children to Dominican territory, as reported in the Listin Diario. Martinez has criticized the fact that this has been happening with the complicity of the armed forces.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)