You've heard about the gay couple who adopted a little Russian boy for the purpose of sexual exploitation by themselves and their friends.
You've heard about parents so desperately poor that they have sold one or more of their children as slaves, or sexual slaves - as young as 4 years old.
You've heard about organized crime syndicates arranging the sales of babies to infertile mothers desperate to have a child.
You've heard that such babies may have been kidnapped.
You've heard of the recent (March) raid on a baby factory in Nigeria where 8 pregnant women were rescued.
You might not know that similar raids were carried out in 2008, and two in 2011 where dozens of women were rescued. Denmark just passed a law forbidding the adoption of children from Nigeria.
You might not know that some of these women, or girls, were offered free abortions, but when they showed up at the hospital, they were locked up until their baby was born, whereupon it was removed and sold to some waiting customer.
You might find it hard to believe, but there are baby factories in India.
You might not know that baby factories are a thriving business in eastern Europe, especially Greece. Run by Organized Crime syndicates from Russia and Albania, they are increasing rapidly.
The Daily Mail: The Greek authorities admit the babies-for-sale racket is worsening. 'This is an escalating problem, the scale of which is impossible to grasp,' said Lieutenant Colonel Antonia Andreakou, director of the Greek police's public security division, which handles cross-border crime.
Ms Andreakou said her department had traced nine sales of Bulgarian infants in the first six months of this year and arrested 33 suspected mediators - 24 Bulgarians, seven Greeks (including doctors and lawyers) and two Albanians.
'This is just a fraction of the number of cases,' she said. 'We need to prove that money has exchanged hands, as this is what makes the transaction illegal, but that is very difficult to do.'
Last month, five Albanians were arrested near the Greek-Albanian border for the alleged sale of eight Roma infants.
The gangs recruit the women in several ways. One, say police sources, is to seek out a young, attractive, healthy woman and tell her they can organise a false passport and papers to enable her to enter Greece.
Once this has been done, the girl is presented with a huge bill which she is unable to pay. She is then told that the debt will be written off if she gets pregnant and gives up her baby.
'The girls have no option but to comply,' says a police source. 'You would not want to upset these people.'
It is believed that these women are made pregnant by members of the gang - a man inevitably caught up in the other mafia 'businesses' of drug dealing and prostitution.
Another method of 'recruitment' is to prey on pregnant women who are drug addicts. They are offered money in return for their baby.
Some pregnant women or new mothers from poor states like Bulgaria and Romania, will voluntarily go to Athens to sell their babies. Some women, or girls, are literally kidnapped off the streets of Europe, drugged, smuggled across borders and chained to a bed in baby factory. One minute they are out on a date - the next thing they know, they are waking up a prisoner in a different country.
If that's not bad enough, some mafia type comes in and rapes the girl repeatedly until she is pregnant. Once her pregnancy is complete, the baby is nursed for awhile then removed and sold.
The girl may be used again, or she may be forcibly hooked on drugs and sold or moved to a brothel where she will work until she is no more use. Then she is thrown out on the street where she will soon die of sickness or starvation.
Basically, the minute she drinks that drink with the date-rape drug, her life is over.
What happens to the children?
Some are sold to adoptive parents who, like people who buy a dog from a puppy-mill, have no idea of the dreadful circumstances of the pregnancy or birth. They have a chance at a somewhat 'normal' life although never knowing their real parents or even their heritage.
Others are not so fortunate. They may end up as slaves working in factories, mines or farms. Some may end up as domestic slaves. Some will have limbs hacked off and are sent out onto the streets to beg. Children with missing limbs gain more sympathy than others.
Some will end up being sold to pedophiles to be used and abused, others to brothels where sex-tourists pay a very high dollar to molest little children - the younger, the better.
Less commonly, some may even be sold to be tortured and/or sacrificed in black magic or witchcraft rituals.
Are you praying about child sex abuse (CSA)? Are you praying my 3:15 PM prayer, or something like it? Are you praying daily or weekly.
While there are excellent groups that you can support who work against CSA, only God can bring it to an end; and He cannot do that without our prayers. Please pray, and please get this message to as many people as you can.
You've heard about parents so desperately poor that they have sold one or more of their children as slaves, or sexual slaves - as young as 4 years old.
You've heard about organized crime syndicates arranging the sales of babies to infertile mothers desperate to have a child.
You've heard that such babies may have been kidnapped.
You've heard of the recent (March) raid on a baby factory in Nigeria where 8 pregnant women were rescued.
You might not know that some of these women, or girls, were offered free abortions, but when they showed up at the hospital, they were locked up until their baby was born, whereupon it was removed and sold to some waiting customer.
You might not know that baby factories are a thriving business in eastern Europe, especially Greece. Run by Organized Crime syndicates from Russia and Albania, they are increasing rapidly.
The Daily Mail: The Greek authorities admit the babies-for-sale racket is worsening. 'This is an escalating problem, the scale of which is impossible to grasp,' said Lieutenant Colonel Antonia Andreakou, director of the Greek police's public security division, which handles cross-border crime.
Ms Andreakou said her department had traced nine sales of Bulgarian infants in the first six months of this year and arrested 33 suspected mediators - 24 Bulgarians, seven Greeks (including doctors and lawyers) and two Albanians.
'This is just a fraction of the number of cases,' she said. 'We need to prove that money has exchanged hands, as this is what makes the transaction illegal, but that is very difficult to do.'
Last month, five Albanians were arrested near the Greek-Albanian border for the alleged sale of eight Roma infants.
Once this has been done, the girl is presented with a huge bill which she is unable to pay. She is then told that the debt will be written off if she gets pregnant and gives up her baby.
'The girls have no option but to comply,' says a police source. 'You would not want to upset these people.'
It is believed that these women are made pregnant by members of the gang - a man inevitably caught up in the other mafia 'businesses' of drug dealing and prostitution.
Another method of 'recruitment' is to prey on pregnant women who are drug addicts. They are offered money in return for their baby.
If that's not bad enough, some mafia type comes in and rapes the girl repeatedly until she is pregnant. Once her pregnancy is complete, the baby is nursed for awhile then removed and sold.
The girl may be used again, or she may be forcibly hooked on drugs and sold or moved to a brothel where she will work until she is no more use. Then she is thrown out on the street where she will soon die of sickness or starvation.
Basically, the minute she drinks that drink with the date-rape drug, her life is over.
What happens to the children?
Some are sold to adoptive parents who, like people who buy a dog from a puppy-mill, have no idea of the dreadful circumstances of the pregnancy or birth. They have a chance at a somewhat 'normal' life although never knowing their real parents or even their heritage.
Others are not so fortunate. They may end up as slaves working in factories, mines or farms. Some may end up as domestic slaves. Some will have limbs hacked off and are sent out onto the streets to beg. Children with missing limbs gain more sympathy than others.
Some will end up being sold to pedophiles to be used and abused, others to brothels where sex-tourists pay a very high dollar to molest little children - the younger, the better.
Less commonly, some may even be sold to be tortured and/or sacrificed in black magic or witchcraft rituals.
Are you praying about child sex abuse (CSA)? Are you praying my 3:15 PM prayer, or something like it? Are you praying daily or weekly.
While there are excellent groups that you can support who work against CSA, only God can bring it to an end; and He cannot do that without our prayers. Please pray, and please get this message to as many people as you can.
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