Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rex Gatchalian on Monday raised the alarm on the illegal adoption and sale of babies over social media, saying this is a cruel form of child exploitation and human trafficking.
Gatchalian issued the warning after the Philippine National Police apprehended a woman and her agent for selling her 8-day old child for P50,000 up to P90,000.“We will not tolerate such acts of cruelty. We will use the fullest extent of the law to apprehend and to prosecute those that will be caught,” Gatchalian said in a press briefing.
For her part, National Authority for Child Care Undersecretary Janella Ejercito Estrada said they have been monitoring the illegal adoption of babies since last year and have found 20 to 40 Facebook pages where such transactions take place.Estrada said there were also Facebook pages selling unborn children.
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