Neighbours Speak On PH Baby Factory
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By Donald Mike-Jaja
March 15, 2009 /The Tide Online
More facts are emerging from all nooks and crannies of Port Harcourt and its suburbs on the alleged “baby factory” where pregnant teanagers are kept and their delivered babies sold to barren women.
Investigation by The Tide On Sunday, revealed that Mrs Florence Anthony, the alleged founder of Mother Mary Florence Foundation is now battling to retrieve a set of twin she sold out to one of her clients, a childless family.
It was authoritatively gathered from the neighbours where the alleged “motherless home” situates in Sangana Street, Port Harcourt, that one of her agents was finding it difficult to locate the actual buyers of the twins.
We understood that the police in Port Harcourt have ordered Mrs Anthony, the alleged child-trafficker to produce the set of twin or be prepared to face the music.
The police matching order, the neighbours said have sent jitters down the spines of the suspect as she is now running from pillar to post to retrieve the set of twin in question.
But her effort is yielding no fruits as she could not trace the family she sold the set of twin.
This, our sources said, forced the woman (suspect) to hire a search team to locate the buyers of the twin in any part of the country, no matter what it would cost her, in order to avoid the threat from the police.
It could be recalled that Mrs Anthony was arrested a forth-night ago for illegal adoption of babies and kept somewhere along Sangana street in Port Harcourt.
It was alleged that the woman was encouraging young girls to get pregnant and entered into agreement with them to sell the new born babies to the home at between N20,000 to N30,000 per child.
But she in turn, sells the new born babies at between N400,000 and N500,000, if it is a male child, while a female child is sold for something less.
The arrest of the alleged child-trafficker and others over the matter has already been confirmed by the image-maker of Rivers State Police Command, Mrs Rita Abbey.
Meanwhile, the suspect, Mrs Anthony has been released on bail while the seven babies recovered from her alleged “Motherless” Baby Home have been transferred to the government-owned Motherless Babies Home, Port Harcourt.
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Not so long ago and even to this date
When I read this article it made me think of a time not all that long ago when the US had it's own baby farms. The practices of Georgia Tann immediately come to mind, but she certainly was not the only one who ran such a baby selling operation. In my opinion the "campus" of the Gladney Center for Adoption, is not much different from a baby farm, it only looks more lush and is backed up by rich and influential people, but that doesn't change the fact they keep women to breed for couples that want to have those children.
A new breeding culture
It's interesting to note how "poor" countries are being used to procure children for the desperate and infertile around the world.
Not too long ago, I was reading Pregnancy becomes latest job outsourced to India, a piece that features the big booming business in surrogacy, and how it's benefiting the people in India.
In another article,India - Surrogacy, Adoption and Cyber Crime, written in 2008, the author notes:
It yet another article, "Childless couples look to India for surrogate mothers", readers are led to believe no harm, or long-term consequences are felt by the mother or child involved in the surrogate transaction:
Meanwhile, it's not just the poor, third-world inhabitants working for the child placement industry -- there are Americans doing the very same thing, all because there is a high demand for healthy babies. [See "Surrogate Wombs to Rent: 'The Curious Lives of Surrogates' "
We now live in a culture that tells mothers "Do not bond with the babies inside you", and at the same flip of the same coin, we are seeing more and more therapies being developed because they "help" children with bonding and attachment difficulties. Why? Because selling babies and various types of "specialized therapies" make lots and lots of money.
Here's a question: What ever happened to adoption being "in a child's best interest", and being the social-cause that provides families and homes for those without any living parents/family members or place to call "home"? [Hint: adoption has always been about social engineering and providing children to those who have the money and connections to obtain one, regardless of whether that desire to have is honorable, or not.]