Sorry if this has been posted before. A sad story for everybody as American Jennifer Talbot was arrested for attempting to smuggle a baby out of the Philippines in September 2019 and the Filipino parents were also charged. Good job the airport personnel in Manila were observant. Manila airport footage at the bottom of the page: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54682565 and
I remember that case, I have personally known two filipinas who have had their respective neices children registered as their own, neither got them to the UK and know of a child bought in a philippine marketplace who now has a much better lifestyle than had he stayed with his birthmother, there's nowt as queer as folk.
Money talks As long as the babies are cared for. (I remember reading the shocking facts of how many babies are born to families in the USA where the "father" is not the biological father.
They can be bought for as little as 300 peso in the Philippines, crazy eh, that's cheaper than a puppy, the birth mother of the boy I know who was bought was selling a baby girl the year after. https://zora-medium-com.cdn.ampproj...nd-baby-trade-in-the-philippines-b41113f2dfc4
The American lady who tried to fly with the child was charged with human trafficking and kidnap even though she bought the baby from a teenage girl she met online. AN AMERICAN woman caught trying to smuggle a six-day-old baby out of the Philippines in her hand luggage was paraded on national television today. Jennifer Talbot, 43, allegedly agreed to adopt the child from a teenage mum she met online, then tried to fly home with him to the US but was caught at Manila airport.
When I first discovered the immigration rules in place in 2011 I told my wife I was going to smuggle her out of the Philippines.
Getting out of the PI without an exit stamp isn't difficult, getting into the west is where the difficulty would be
Got a couple of books on slavery the other day, been reading quite a bit on the subject, interesting fact approx 1.2 million children are known to be trafficked/sold every year.
As you know Druk1, slavery for us Brits is inextricably linked to West Africa. I have a good book that gives good background on the subject, if you are interested:
As a kid I used to marvel at stories of "The Dark Continent" I just bought a number of books for lockdown, I am a voracious reader, can plough through an average book in 2 days if it grips my interest, the two slave books I bought are The Last Slave Market about John Kirk, the guy who ended the East African slave trade, and Rough Crossings the title of which is self explanatory, I got it because I remember the film Amistad, the sad news these books tell me at my age in the public slave market I would have sold if at all for a dollar (Despite my good lady telling me I am priceless ).
