The Buzz | Federal prosecutors take over Mexico baby-sale case
Mexican federal prosecutors are taking over the case of at least nine babies taken from poor or drug-addicted mothers and offered in an adoption-for-pay scheme.
The prosecutors’ office in the northern border state of Sonora said the federal government had taken over the investigation because it involved child trafficking and organized crime.
The ringleaders allegedly offered adoptive parents the babies with false paperwork for between USD5,000 to $9,000. One of the ringleaders worked in a child welfare agency.
Sonora previously decided to drop charges against adoptive parents and returned the children to them. But the kids will undergo DNA tests, in case any biological parents show up to claim them. Prosecutors have suggested the biological mothers may not have wanted the babies
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