A baby trafficking scandal strikes the order of Mother Teresa de Calcula

NEW DELHI (AFP) .- The scandal was revealed earlier this month. On July 5, an employee of one of the centers of
pregnant women and single women administered by the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and located in the state
The Jharkhand Indian was arrested after being accused of trafficking babies.

She and another woman who was not working for the organization were named by a couple who could not have children to sell them a 14 day old baby. returned to the authorities, as published by the newspaper
El País

Police Superintendent Aman Kumar referred to the case and said: "We were told that at least five or six babies were sold, we are investigating to see how the 39th operation took place and how many children were sold.For its part, after a complaint from the Committee for the welfare of children of the city, the director of the National Society of Protection of the 39; Jharkhand's childhood, Arti Kujur, warned: "We have I received many complaints about the operation of this house and we have been following it for almost six months. "

According to the information that was transmitted, the organization of Mother Teresa charged between 40,000 and 100,000 rupees per baby (between $ 580 and $ 1,500) the amount depended on what interested parties could pay.

The Missionaries' Defense

Chandra Argawal is the spokesperson for the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta and said that she was not aware of the case or the rumors that bind them to the trafficking of babies. In addition, he explained that since 2015, the Sisters of Charity are no longer related to adoption because of their disagreement with new government regulations. The Catholic order does not agree that single, divorced or separated people adopt minors.

However, his explanation did not silence the critics. Baidnath Kumar, a child rights activist, said that mothers who come to this place have no rights over their children. "I visited the center and all the births were not notified to the state authorities," he said, adding that in 2013 he had introduced the name 240 suspected traffickers operating from New Mexico.
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Inspections in all centers

India ordered to inspect all the children's centers run by the order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Yesterday, in a statement, the Minister of Women Development and Child, Maneka Gandhi, asked all state governments. inspect immediately all the children's centers run by the Missionaries of Charity across the country. "

Illegal adoption is a big deal in India and about 100,000 children go missing every year, according to government data.Many of them are sold by poor families but in d". other cases they are kidnapped in hospitals or railway stations.