When You Thought Man's Depravity Couldn't Get Any Lower - You Hear This

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.

Roma Immigrants Jailed for Heinous Child Sex Assaults

 A gang that raped and sexually assaulted five vulnerable girls in Peterborough, UK, have been jailed at the Old Bailey.

Peterborough is a little more than 100 km/60 mi straight north of London.

Hassan Abdulla, 33, was jailed for 20 years while Zdeno Mirga, 18, described as the "boss" by one victim, was jailed for 16 and a half years.

Both were convicted of multiple rapes and child prostitution.

Mirga and Abdulla were found guilty along with three teenage boys of a series of rapes and sexual assaults on girls.

Zdeno Mirga, 18 and Hassan Abdulla, 33

Jan Kandrac, 17, and Renato Balog, 18, were jailed for five and a half and 12 years respectively.

Jan Kandrac, 17 and Renato Balog, 18

A 14-year-old boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was given a non-custodial six-month youth rehabilitation order after being convicted of sexual activity with a child.

The men and youths were of Czech and Slovak Roma and Kurdish backgrounds.

'Worst case'
Ringleader Mirga and Balog will begin their sentences in a young offender institution.

Mirga was convicted of eight counts of rape and one count of inciting child prostitution. The court heard one of his victims became pregnant.

Drug dealer Abdulla was convicted of four rapes and three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Balog, who helped Abdulla sell drugs, was jailed for five rapes and three sexual assaults.

Kandrac will serve his sentence in a young offender institution for one count of rape and two of indecent assault on a child.

The court was told the case came to light when a girl, then aged 12 or 13, was taken into care and began to tell her social worker what had been happening to her.

After the trial the Crown Prosecution Service said it was one of the "worst cases" of child sex abuse it had seen.

The gang preyed on girls who visited a fried chicken takeaway in Peterborough.

They used "sophisticated" grooming tactics to lure them to attacks carried out at parks and other locations, including a children's playground, police said.

Peterborough City Council has begun a serious case review into the care the children received.

Ringleader Mirga offered the girls out to other men to get money for vodka and drugs, the court was told.

Judge John Bevan singled out the gang's treatment of one victim, who had severe learning difficulties and a very low IQ.

She was repeatedly raped, with men and boys sometimes lining up to abuse her as a "sexual commodity", he said.

"To you she was easy meat, a sexual plaything who no one cared about, no one cared for and who nobody would believe.

"Unfortunately for you, the jury did.

"The combination of the crimes you have committed and your attitude to these crimes both in this country and this court bring discredit on all of you in the dock.

"It also does a disservice to your fellow Roma who want to work hard in this country, improve themselves and make a positive contribution."

The judge branded Abdulla a "dangerous predatory paedophile" who fled Iraq in 2002 and has since been convicted of offences including drug possession.

He is likely to be deported once he has served his sentence, along with Balog and Kandrac.

The 14-year-old defendant was allowed to walk free from court after the judge was told he had already spent seven-and-a-half months on remand.

The investigation was a joint inquiry between Cambridgeshire Police and Peterborough City Council's children's services.

Gillian Beasley, chief executive of Peterborough City Council, said it would be "a long road to recovery for these girls".

This is where we come in, please pray for these girls to recover completely from this horrible episode in their lives without lingering effects.

The initial report on this story can be read here.