Nigerian 'baby farm' raided – 32 pregnant girls rescued

Source: The Guardian

Nigerian police have raided an alleged "baby farm" where teenage mothers were forced to give up their newborns for sale to human traffickers.

Thirty-two pregnant girls were rescued from a maternity home run by a trafficking ring in the southern city of Aba, police said.

The girls, mostly of school age, were allegedly locked up at the Cross Foundation clinic so they could produce babies to be sold for illegal adoption or for use in ritual witchcraft.

Bala Hassan, the Abia state police commissioner, said: "We stormed the premises of the Cross Foundation in Aba three days ago following a report that pregnant girls aged between 15 and 17 are being made to make babies for the proprietor.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jun/02/nigeria-baby-farm-raided-human-trafficking

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More resources on baby farming:

http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/topics/babyfarming.html
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/baby-farming

so they had to try a new technique.

I don't know what's more tragic: The rampant buying and selling of babies for not even $200, or the fact that the market had enough demand to require a breeding pen...

I think that's still thinking in.


OnEdit: Fuck that, it's not this planet. That's bullshit. It's just us.

PB

Execute everyone even remotely involved in this nonsense. (the perps obviously, not the victims).

Really, I can feel such despair about the human mammal.

I don't believe this is a recent phenomenon.I guess as we evolved the capacity to symbolize and project intent and read emotions of others, we became creatures capable of the most colossal cruelty. We've (sapiens, neanderthals?) probably been doing crap this horrific for 100,000 years. It's like we have enough empathy to drive the desire/fear that leads to this horrific behavior, but not enough to restrain ourselves.

This is the symbolism of the "Fall" from the Garden of Eden. You want the capacity to conceptualize, Adam and Eve? Well, have at it, and welcome to Hell.

possible, and stockpiled most of the world's weapons to use upon it.

Thank god the corporate media keep us informed of the next countries we want to punish.

Or that baby farming should not be reported upon?

Many heinous acts go on within the United States, and many have been perpetrated by the United States. Use of human infants in ritual sacrifice is fortunately not something we've caused, though we stirred up the pot with our own fundamentalist witchcraft-believers. However, this lovely tradition predates Western colonialism.

don't know if it is bullshit, but if it was it would be well constructed propaganda.

I keep praying for the emergence of some super-virus or whatnot that will wipe us all out one day, but it never comes...

(sigh)

350lbs each almost come to blows over who was first in the Cinnabon line.

This topic is much worse, I know, but the fact that we both used the exact same phrase prompted a response to you.

ps - George Carlin said Mother Earth will some day shake us all off of her like a bad case of fleas. Not only did I agree with him but I'm also inclined to believe the countdown is moving right along these days.

to wipe us all out in a day. We're like fleas or ticks or flies or fruit flies. In some massive die-off, we'll still be around. Unfortunately.