African child smuggler arrested.FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE -- Three people have been arrested and charged with smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain 29 children to the United States for adoption, say police in Sierra Leone. According to a BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. report the suspects were former local aid agency employees who ran orphanages in the north. They set up an orphanage, and persuaded poor parents to give up their children for adoption. Police allege the children were then smuggled smug·gle v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles v.tr. 1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. 2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth. to a neighbouring country and flown to the United States. The arrests followed an Interpol investigation into child trafficking in West Africa. The remaining children from the home have been placed with social services and authorities are trying to track down the children in the US and have them returned. The United Nations Children's Fund United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), an affiliated agency of the United Nations. It was established in 1946 as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. estimates that about 200,000 West African children are trafficked each year; most are taken to Europe or sold into slavery as domestic workers. |
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