Thread: Texas couple accused of selling Mexican babies

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9409192?source=bb


MONTERREY, Mexico — Police in northern Mexico have arrested two people accused of buying Mexican babies to sell to U.S. couples for a profit, investigators said Wednesday.

Amado Torres, 64, of Harlingen, Texas, and his 25-year-old wife, Maria Isabel Hernandez, are suspected of buying more than a dozen children ages 2 or younger, officials say.

Investigator Oralia Mancha said the child-trafficking ring came to light when a woman came to a police station in Reynosa on Monday to report her granddaughter missing, spotted Torres there and claimed that he had the baby.

Police later arrested Torres and Hernandez after finding them with the baby at a house in nearby Rio Bravo.

Below is a translation from a Mexican newspaper of the same story.
Desarticula PME banda internacional de traficantes de infantes . By Antonio Hernández OlguÃ*n CNT/ANTAM, (Centro Noticias Tamaulipas), Reynosa, Tamaulipas. May 27, 2008: http://www.cntamaulipas.info/nota.php?art_ID=38039

Translation:

An international band of infant traffickers which was operating in this region was dismantled on the part of the PME following a rapid mobilization to rescue an infant of only 23 days of age, who the traffickers expected to take to the United States to sell to a married couple of the neighboring country.

In a press conference, the detained were presented. Amado Torres Rosas, alias “El Biliâ€

Good to know that family values are alive and well among the Mexican citizens. Sell your baby to pay bail-come to think of it, what kind of life would this child have had with a criminal mom?

I know, it is a no win situation for that child. Being sold, or having a criminal mother......

I am left sort of speechless about that. Poor child.