NewsWhore
10-19-2010, 03:40 PM
The business of child begging is examined in today's Diario Libre. The newspaper reports that groups of child beggars are assigned to work at key intersections in central Santo Domingo, primarily in the Poligono Central (Lincoln, Churchill, Gustavo Mejia Ricart and nearby streets) and they are monitored by their bosses.
The coordinator of Haitian Catholic Church in the country, Father Carlos Amedee Sherwans told Diario Libre that they have interviewed and tried to follow the children. "The fact is that where they live they are controlled. When we were conducting this investigation and following the children, others followed us and then told us all we had done and threatened us," said the priest.
"These children are not orphans and they have not been abandoned. They are children who are operating as part of a network of traffickers. They live in a colony of Haitians, mostly in Los Alcarrizos and they have bosses who distribute them in the day and night," said Sherwans.
Legally, the problem is complicated, according to Diario Libre. There is a law that Protects Children and Teenagers that is above the Migration Law. This requires the authorities to deliver the children to their parents or relatives before they are deported. The paperwork for the deportation takes weeks, and in the meantime the child needs to be placed in a shelter. They cannot be sent to Haiti unless they have an institution to go to, or their parents are located. "This is difficult, because the children themselves don't know where their parents are or if they have parents," says the report.
http://diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=265015
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The coordinator of Haitian Catholic Church in the country, Father Carlos Amedee Sherwans told Diario Libre that they have interviewed and tried to follow the children. "The fact is that where they live they are controlled. When we were conducting this investigation and following the children, others followed us and then told us all we had done and threatened us," said the priest.
"These children are not orphans and they have not been abandoned. They are children who are operating as part of a network of traffickers. They live in a colony of Haitians, mostly in Los Alcarrizos and they have bosses who distribute them in the day and night," said Sherwans.
Legally, the problem is complicated, according to Diario Libre. There is a law that Protects Children and Teenagers that is above the Migration Law. This requires the authorities to deliver the children to their parents or relatives before they are deported. The paperwork for the deportation takes weeks, and in the meantime the child needs to be placed in a shelter. They cannot be sent to Haiti unless they have an institution to go to, or their parents are located. "This is difficult, because the children themselves don't know where their parents are or if they have parents," says the report.
http://diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=265015
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)