De Lima seeks Senate probe on babies for sale

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 06:39:20 +0000

Detained Sen. Leila de Lima is seeking a Senate investigation into the alleged rampant buying and selling of newborn babies in underground black markets in the country.

De Lima, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare, and Rural Development, said she is alarmed over continuing reports of “babies-for-sale” trade as this endangers babies’ safety and makes them susceptible to exploitation and abuse.

She has filed Senate Resolution No. 224 tasking the appropriate Senate committee to dig deeper and probe the babies-for-sale trade that are being done both through online and offline transactions.

“Despite the efforts of both the government and non-government organizations to address the illegal baby-for-sale trade, significant solutions remain to be elusive,” De Lima lamented.

“Poverty remains to be one of the main drivers in the prevalence of such atrocious illegal activity, and the continued proliferation of appalling activities relating to the exploitation, trafficking, and abuse of
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