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Police Arrest Two Child Traffickers in Akwa Ibom Over Selling of Children, Three at Large
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command, Uyo has arrested a man, Mr. Sunday Monday Udoh from Ekpene Obo, Esit Eket, and a woman, Mrs. Patience Kingsley Godwin Koffi Etanam from Idung Udo, Eket Local Government Areas. The suspects were arrested for allegedly selling two children, male ten and the female four years old respectively.
A police crack team headed by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ifiiok Joseph of the police headquarters, Uyo effected their arrests on a tip-off by a community member who was monitoring their shady activity.
Our reporters gathered that Mr. Sunday Monday Udoh had taken two of his grandchildren (names withheld) to a spiritual healing home run by a certain. Prophet Ikon in Ekpene Obo, Esit Eket for exorcism. But Mr. Udoh who was not satisfied with the deliverance carried out on his grandchildren hinted that he was prepared to kill the children to avoid unnecessary encumbrance to his life since their parents were not alive. It was at this juncture that Prophet Ikon told him he had a link for the children to be sold out to those who needed them for adoption. It was at this juncture that a certain Kingsley Godwin Koffi Etenam from Idung was contracted as a link man to perfect the shady deal having been a kingpin in sales of children business. When he arrived, he took the two children alongside their grandfather, Mr. Sunday Monday Udoh to Abia State.
While in Aba, Abia State for the sales of the children, the police was hinted which led to the arrest Mr. Monday Udoh. Though Kingsley escaped the dragnet of the police, his wife, Patience didn’t.
Our report further learned that Mrs. Patience Kingsley Godwin Koffi Etenam operates a spiritual healing home and a traditional birth attendants centre where she recruited young girls whom she camped in her centre and invites men to put them in the family ways and as soon as they gave birth, the children were sold to ritual or human trafficking syndicates.
The police are still hunting for Kingsley Godwin Koffi Etenam, Prophet Ikon and one Christopher now at large.
Commenting on the sad news, the head of the Child’s Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) Mr. Sam Itauma said children stigmatization as witches makes it easier for children to be carted away and sold out by human traffickers and ritual killers as they are often abandoned and rejected by their families.
He decried the alarming rate of fake traditional birth attendants (TBA) homes in the state and stated that such quasi and illegal operators should be fished out and brought to book
https://newsghana.com.gh/police-arrest-two-child-traffickers-in-akwa-ibom-over-selling-of-children-three-at-large/
Exposing the underground world of modern-day human traffickers in Arkansas
LONOKE, Ark. – Arkansas law enforcement officers say they are seeing a major spike in internet crimes against children, which in some cases turns into sex trafficking.
When there’s no end to a road in sight, an interstate connects the coasts into a world of traffic you see and traffic you don’t.
“There are so many different types of human trafficking,” Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant James Hall said.
It’s the vicious cycle of used and abused.
“They are battered women, they’re drug-addicted, a lot of them started out as at-risk juveniles,” LCSO Sergeant Anthony Counts explained. “Some of the prostitutes are actually human-trafficking victims.”
Counts is assigned to Street Crimes, the unit’s mission is to prevent and stop crime.
Street Crimes Lieutenant James Hall said Lonoke County could be considered the perfect spot for people to try and hide trafficked victims.
“Look, small hotel right here, conspicuous,” Hall described of the area. “We got a couple gas stations, a Sonic, your gas stations also have your food that’s in there as well.”
He explained that for traffickers, it’s all about staying under the radar and off surveillance cameras.
“Perfect to people who are doing the trafficking because they don’t want to be seen,” he said.
https://www.fox16.com/crime/exposing-the-underground-world-of-modern-day-human-traffickers-in-arkansas/
https://www.fox16.com/crime/exposing-the-underground-world-of-modern-day-human-traffickers-in-arkansas/
Cambodia Human trafficking cases surge in first three months of 2021
There has been an increase in human trafficking cases over the first three months of this year compared to the last, a senior official at the Ministry of Interior has said, adding that at least 100 people were arrested.
Chou Bun Eng, secretary of state and permanent vice-chair of the National Committee for Counter Trafficking of Cambodia, said yesterday that based on the ministry’s primary report, the cases have increased by 46 percent, to 85 cases from 58 recorded over the same three month period last year.
The surge in cases is due to people attempting to cross borders to escape pandemic-related crises, Bun Eng said.
“One factor behind the increase of human trafficking cases was due to brokers thinking the government was busy fighting against COVID-19 which may have led to less attention in cracking down,” Bun Eng said yesterday.
“Another factor was that some people may have thought that in the time of the pandemic, they could easily escape across the border to work outside the country and they did not care about the calls from the government over COVID-19 infection or being cheated by brokers,” she said.
Most of the cases of human trafficking are of illegal border crossings to another country, she said.
Although the cases have increased during the period, the authorities have cracked down and arrested some 100 people, she added.
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has previously called for taking harsh action at the borders to crack down on human trafficking.
He also said measures against human trafficking apply to all people, including officials and civil servants who take bribes.
The Interior Ministry Immigration Department’s spokesman General Keo Vanthorn said that over 30,000 Cambodian migrant workers returned from Thailand between December last year and April 2021.
3,000 of these were illegal migrant workers who were deported from Thailand to Cambodia during the period.
All brokers arrested have been sent to court for trial and officials involved in the cases have been stripped of their positions, Bun Eng said.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50855155/human-trafficking-cases-surge-in-first-three-months-of-2021/