EVEN unborn babies are being scheduled for sale online, the executive director of the National Authority for Child Care (NACC) said Wednesday, just a week after police arrested a woman and her agent for trying to sell an 8-day-old boy on the Facebook marketplace.
EVEN unborn babies are being scheduled for sale online, the executive director of the National Authority for Child Care said Wednesday, just a week after police arrested a woman and her agent for trying to sell an 8-day-old boy on the Facebook marketplace.'We absolutely need to ramp up the information campaign, especially among local government units, because this illegal operation occurs online,' said Janella Estrada, executive director of the NACC.
In a press briefing Wednesday, Estrada also said they were actively engaging with social media providers such as Facebook to monitor accounts, pages and groups involved in these illegal activities.The DSWD this week acknowledged the NACC and the Philippine National Police's Women and Children Protection Center for busting a syndicate involved in the illegal sale of babies over the internet, with prices ranging from P10,000 to P100,000.
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