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Burkina Faso: Franceline Silga - La vendeuse de bébés pêchée à Tripoli

Adama Ouédraogo Damiss

18 Février 2010

Une vendeuse de bébé, on en voit rarement. Pourtant ce trafic éhonté d'êtres humains existe sous nos cieux. Et une Burkinabè répondant au nom de Franceline Silga, spécialiste de ce type de commerce, vient d'être pêchée à Tripoli et médite au frais sur son acte. A cet effet, le directeur général de la police, Rasmané Ouangrawa a animé une conférence de presse le 18 février 2010 dans la matinée.

Elle s'appelle Franceline Silga, née en janvier 1979 à Kourittenga. Animatrice de formation, cette jeune dame a changé entre-temps de profession pour se livrer à une pratique illicite dans la législation burkinabè. En effet, elle a trouvé son filon dans le trafic d'êtres humains, plus précisément de bébés qu'elle plaçait en adoption chez des couples européens moyennant évidemment une rémunération à la hauteur de son forfait.

Selon le directeur général de la police, Rasmané Ouangrawa, Franceline qui possède deux passeports burkinabè (un passeport de service et un passeport ordinaire) fait voyager par voie terrestre à partir du Burkina Faso, des femmes enceintes démunies, presque à terme, jusqu'à N'Djamena au Tchad. Elle les fait transiter par Tripoli, en Lybie, par voie aérienne puis les achemine à Rome, en Italie.

Après l'accouchement, les bébés sont récupérés pour adoption en échange d'une certaine somme d'argent. La trafiquante prend sa part, donne le reste aux mamans et rebelotte. Un tel acte ne pouvait rester impuni. C'est ainsi que dans la nuit du 16 février 2010, la trafiquante a été arrêtée et reconduite à Ouagadougou avec une fillette de moins de trois ans dont elle refuse de donner le nom du père.

La présumée coupable a déclaré, au dire du DG de la police, appartenir à une structure dénommée « Association Aide aux tout-petits, orphelins et enfants de rue » dont elle est la présidente du bureau de onze membres. Cette organisation, créée en juillet 2005, a fonctionné avant de voir son siège fermé en 2009 par le ministère de l'Action sociale pour absence d'autorisation d'ouverture.

Liens Pertinents

On apprend également que lors de l'arrestation de la présumée coupable, il a été découvert dans ses bagages à main divers documents au nombre desquels deux passeports burkinabè aux noms de Kaboré Augueratou et de Ilboudo Patingué et dix-neuf fiches d'identification d'enfants burkinabè de pères inconnus censés se trouver en Italie. Ces deux femmes sus-citées auraient été conduites au Tchad alors qu'elles étaient enceintes. Franceline Silga a, sans doute, bénéficié de complicité pour mener toutes ces opérations.

Comment a-t-elle pu, par exemple, se faire établir un passeport de service ? Qui finançait ses voyages qui en toute évidence sont coûteux au regard du trajet ? Autant d'interrogations que les fins limiers de la police pourront élucider. Les investigations se poursuivent et dans les jours ou mois à venir, on aura peut-être d'autres informations relatives à cette ténébreuse affaire.

Countries: Italy, Burkina Faso

Persons: Franceline Silga

Blog: Baby Trafficking (China)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Baby Trafficking

What a horrible day (sob).

The next step in Lili's adoption is to do a "re-adoption". Basically all it is is a formality to get a US issued "Certificate of Foreign Birth" so anytime Lili needs to show a birth certificate in the future, she can just show the Certificate of Foreign Birth, since she doesn't and won't ever have a birth certificate from China (the biological parents don't abandoned the children leaving their birth certificate with the baby).

So, I had tried to find an international adoption attorney in this area (the Middle of NoWhere, Oklahoma), but no one seemed to know how to do it. So, going off other adoptive families experiences I decided to do the re-adoption "pro se" or representing myself. At least by doing it myself I would save approx $2000.

Organizations: Great Wall China Adoption (GWCA)

Countries: United States of America, China

Child: U.S. Adoption Agency Bought Me

NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 15, 2010

Child: U.S. Adoption Agency Bought Me

CBS News Investigates Serious Questions about the Legitimacy of Some Ethopian Adoptions

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Organizations: Christian World Adoption

Countries: Ethiopia, United States of America

'Adviser' denies sex trafficking

Feb 15, 2010

'Adviser' denies sex trafficking

The adviser, Jorge Puello, had been presented as a Dominican lawyer for the American missionaries after their arrest last month. -- PHOTO: AP

PORT-AU-PRINCE - AN ADVISER to 10 Americans charged with kidnapping in Haiti on Monday denied he was involved in a sex trafficking ring in El Salvador after police there announced they were investigating him.

The adviser, Jorge Puello, had been presented as a Dominican lawyer for the American missionaries after their arrest last month. He has now returned to the Dominican Republic. In addition to denying any sex trafficking involvement, Puello told AFP he did not have contact with the Americans prior to their arrest, but declined to provide details.

Lawyers for the Americans have also said they did not know him before they were arrested. How they came into contact remains unclear.

El Salvador police have said they are probing whether Puello is the same person sought in the Central American nation over the sex trafficking case, Jorge Torres Orellana, and have posted photos on their website that show a strong resemblance.

'They are accusing me of something that I don't even know myself,' Puello told AFP. 'I'm open to questions. It could happen that two people could have the same name. Whatever the case may be, I'm not afraid of anything.'

Interpol has issued a wanted persons alert for Orellana, saying he is accused of running an international sex trafficking ring. The ring lured women and girls from the Caribbean and Central America into prostitution with bogus offers of modeling jobs, according to Interpol. -- AFP

Persons: Jorge Torres-Puello aka Jorge Puello aka George Simard

Vegetable vendor's plea moves apex court

New Delhi |Monday, 2010 11:05:12 AM IST

The Supreme Court has sought the Maharashtra government's response to a lawsuit filed by a vegetable vendor accusing a Pune-based private trust of selling her two granddaughters to a Spanish couple under the garb of adoption.

A bench of Justice Aftab Alam sought the reply also from the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) on a lawsuit by Kisabai Tulsiram Lokhande, the grandmother of the girls.

In her lawsuit Lokhande, a vegetable vendor, has accused the private trust, Preet Mandir, of selling her two granddaughters to a Spanish couple for Rs.5 lakh and Rs.25 lakh respectively. She said she had handed over the girls to an observation home in Karad in September 2004 as she was unable to look after them.

Organizations: ACT CASE Grandmother Satara - Kisabai Lokhande

La boîte à bébés, boîte à controverses

Image © Michele Limina

La boîte à bébés de l'Hôpital régional d'Einsiedeln (SZ) vient de recueillir un cinquième nouveau-né depuis sa création en 2001

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Countries: Switzerland

Actress Lisa B plans to adopt baby girl from disaster zone

Undeterred by the controversy over the missionaries who tried to take a bus full of children out of Haiti, Lisa B is considering adopting a child from a disaster zone.

By Richard Eden

Published: 10:50PM GMT 13 Feb 2010

Lisa B Photo: REX Features

Organizations: Foundation for the Relief of Disabled Orphans (F.R.O.D.O./Frodokids)

Fate of Chinese baby depends on parents consent to treatment

By Emily Chang, CNN

February 12, 2010 2:14 a.m. EST

China's 'Baby Hope'

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Countries: China

Persons: Melody Wen Zhang

Organizations: Children's Hope International (CHI)

New Adoption Policy Backfires

02-12-2010 18:04

New Adoption Policy Backfires

Korea is trying to reduce the number of adoptions overseas to burnish its image but the new policy is leaving kids with special needs out of the loop.

/ Korea Times

By Bae Ji-sook

Countries: South Korea

Bastardette: WHO IS JORGE PUELLO?

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010

WHO IS JORGE PUELLO?

I've been curious about Jorge Puello since his name appeared about 10 days ago as the legal adviser for the New Lifers. Puello made a big splat on CNN when he complained about the severe conditions under which his clients were jailed: "No air conditioning! No Electricity! Very disturbing!"

According to news reports Puello was hired by Laura Silby's church, Central Valley Baptist, after either the church or Laura Silsby and her gang rejected the attorney (or attorneys) recommended by American Consular Services. Puello, in turn, hired Haitian attorney Edwin Coq to represent the detainees, even though Coq speaks Creole and no English. What to make of that nonsense?

Last week, according to whose story you believe, Puello fired Coq, claiming that the Haitian had demanded a $60,000 fee and attempted to bribe the prisoners back to the US. Coq denied the accusation, and said he quit because the families back in Idaho never sent him the $60,000 he needed to take the case. Sources inside of Haiti who know Coq claim that he is an "honest young lawyer" and refused to believe Puello's claim. Coq has complained to the press that Puello has ruined his reputation.

Persons: Jorge Torres-Puello aka Jorge Puello aka George Simard