BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syrian troops have arrested five people in Syrian-controlled eastern Lebanon on charges of kidnapping and selling a number of children for $500 each, police said Wednesday.

Police said a Syrian patrol in the Bekaa Valley caught Haitham Nasereddine, 27, as he was trying to snatch a baby from the Al Habshi family as it played in front of the family home in the village of Deir Al Ahmar, east of Beirut.

The Syrian troops handed over Haitham to Lebanese authorities, they said. Haitham confessed that he and four other people formed a gang for kidnapping children, they said.

The kidnapped children later were delivered to George Fouad Abu Jawdeh, who owns a snack shop in the Christian resort of Broumana, 12 miles east of Beirut, for $500 for each child.

The detainees said Abu Jawdeh funded the gang and handled the sales, police said but gave no other details about the number of kidnapped children and their location.

President Ion Iliescu van Roemenie heeft deze week een wet ondertekend die een eind moet maken aan een van de vreemdste uitwassen van de 'bevrijding' van Oost-Europa. In Roemenie, waar het regime van voorheen N. Ceausescu nog voor generaties ongesorteerd verdriet zal zorgen, is de handel in baby's in korte tijd de huisindustrie van de jaren negentig geworden. Prijzen van twintigduizend dollar per kind zijn geen uitzondering.

Marc Chavannes

20 juli 1991

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Navrant genoeg is het Westerse goedertierenheid die de vraag en daarmee de prijs zo heeft opgedreven. Hartelijke burgers uit 'de vrije wereld' worden aangetrokken door de eerste reportages over Roemeense pakhuizen vol verwaarloosde, zieke of misvormde weeskinderen. Zij willen iets doen voor de vruchten van het dictatoriale gebod tot voortplanting en het bijbehorende verbod op voorbehoedmiddelen en abortus. Zo is een mensenmarkt ontstaan.

Limburgsch dagblad

29-06-1991

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Officials Urge New Romanian Adoption Law

GABRIEL PASLARU

June 7, 1991

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) _ Government and international officials on Friday urged Romania’s Senate to pass a controversial adoption law that would crack down on a growing practice of selling babies.

The proposed law establishes jail sentences of up to five years for biological parents and baby dealers who accept payment to facilitate adoptions. It also forbids the adoption of children who have been abandoned less than six months.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) _ Government and international officials on Friday urged Romania’s Senate to pass a controversial adoption law that would crack down on a growing practice of selling babies.

The proposed law establishes jail sentences of up to five years for biological parents and baby dealers who accept payment to facilitate adoptions. It also forbids the adoption of children who have been abandoned less than six months.

On Monday, the Senate postponed debate on the bill, which was proposed by the government last month and was passed two weeks ago by Parliament’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies.

If the law is passed, a government committee would control all adoptions instead of the present practice of allowing local courts to handle many of the procedures. This means adoptions would be halted about three months because the government’s Adoption Committee stopped operating last week and doesn’t plan to resume before September.

That has raised a furor of dissent among hundreds of Western couples who are in Romania searching for children to adopt. Some have begun lobbying senators to block the bill.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) _ Government and international officials on Friday urged Romania’s Senate to pass a controversial adoption law that would crack down on a growing practice of selling babies.

The proposed law establishes jail sentences of up to five years for biological parents and baby dealers who accept payment to facilitate adoptions. It also forbids the adoption of children who have been abandoned less than six months.

On Monday, the Senate postponed debate on the bill, which was proposed by the government last month and was passed two weeks ago by Parliament’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies.

If the law is passed, a government committee would control all adoptions instead of the present practice of allowing local courts to handle many of the procedures. This means adoptions would be halted about three months because the government’s Adoption Committee stopped operating last week and doesn’t plan to resume before September.

That has raised a furor of dissent among hundreds of Western couples who are in Romania searching for children to adopt. Some have begun lobbying senators to block the bill.

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By Brent Israelsen, Staff Writer

Published: Friday, May 24 1991 12:00 a.m. MDT