SCANDAL: AFRICAN CHILD SOLD TO BRITAIN FOR ORGAN HARVESTING

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), promote first and foremost gives children the right to be cared for by their parents.  

It is the responsibility of the State to support families and communities in the upbringing of their children. Inter-country adoption may only be considered if there is no way at all to bring up a child in-country and that includes foster care and residential care. All efforts should be made to keep families together.

However, according to researched, in the last fifty years an adoption industry has been developing that serves the growing demand for children in all parts world. It is now an industry in which huge sums of money are involved.

Children are now sold for money (disguised as adoption fees) mainly through licensed and accredited adoption agencies and regulated by adoption laws.

According to a reports in METRO,Uk, an unnamed child was brought into the  UK from Somalia with the express purpose of having her organs removed in order to be sold on.

The Daily Telegraph said that the case was revealed in a government report, which also showed that human trafficking within the UK has risen by more than 50 per cent in the last year.

It also revealed that more than 370 children in 2012 were exploited as slaves or sexually abused – their nationalities ranging from Vietnamese, Nigerian, Bangladeshi and Chinese.

The report also said that 20 British girls had been the victims of human trafficking.

‘Traffickers are exploiting the demand for organs and the vulnerability of children. It’s unlikely that a trafficker is going to take this risk and bring just one child into the UK. It is likely there was a group,’ Bharti Patel, the chief executive of Ecpat UK, the child protection charity, told the newspaper.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, there are as many as 2.5million trafficking victims around the world at any one time.

The victims are often forced either into a life of domestic servitude, intense physical labour, placed in the sex industry, within warfare, made to beg, or have their organs removed.

An internet user, James Fisher comments on this child trafficking scandal read thus: ‘some people's lives are so cheap that these things can happen. I find it distressing that this can fit into the ethics of any medical organisation in the U.K.’’