"HOTSPOT"= Haiti = Child Trafficking

Article from 2017

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-haiti-children-trafficking/haiti-orphanages-hotspot-of-child-trafficking-abuse-says-charity-idUSKBN19D2PO

>>Haiti orphanages hotspot of child trafficking, abuse, says charity

Anastasia Moloney

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children living in hundreds of orphanages in Haiti suffer sexual and physical abuse and some are trafficked into orphanages for profit, according to a charity founded by “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling.

>>Many of Haiti’s orphanages use deception to recruit children from unknowing and impoverished parents - a form of trafficking - and use those children to attract donations, said the report released on Thursday by the London-based charity Lumos.

>>Donors, mostly from the United States and faith-based organizations, give $70 million a year to one-third of Haiti’s 750 orphanages, it said.

>>About 30,000 children live in orphanages in Haiti, even though four in five of those children have at least one living parent, Lumos said. Most orphanages are privately funded.