NewsWhore
07-28-2011, 03:50 PM
The international media is reporting that the Special Ground Border Security Unit (Cesfront) has thwarted an attempt to smuggle 10 Haitian children into the Dominican Republic. Cesfront officials say a Haitian citizen who was transporting the children aged between 4 and 9 escaped after noticing the presence of soldiers in the province of Dajabon on the border with Haiti.
The children said their parents in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien had entrusted them to the man who planned to smuggle them into Santiago where they would earn a living for their traffickers as child beggars on the streets with other Haitian children.
As reported, the children were handed over to a humanitarian organization, the Ouanaminthe Protection Brigade, until a solution is found. Marie Yolene Rene, of the Brigade, said that the number of Haitian children being brought in the Dominican Republic in irregular ways has been rising in recent months.
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The children said their parents in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien had entrusted them to the man who planned to smuggle them into Santiago where they would earn a living for their traffickers as child beggars on the streets with other Haitian children.
As reported, the children were handed over to a humanitarian organization, the Ouanaminthe Protection Brigade, until a solution is found. Marie Yolene Rene, of the Brigade, said that the number of Haitian children being brought in the Dominican Republic in irregular ways has been rising in recent months.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)