Body parts black market booming in UK Description: A government report says the number of victims trafficked into Britain last year rose by more than 50 percent year on year.
A government report says the number of victims trafficked into Britain last
year rose by more than 50 percent year on year.
Sun Oct 20, 2013 12:24AM GMT
The number of human smuggling victims in the UK has topped record levels
with a girl specifically trafficked to have her organs harvested, it has
emerged.
A government report exposed the case of a Somali girl trafficked into
Britain, where human smugglers intended to remove her organs and sell them
on the black market, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The report claims that the case is a first, but child protection charities
say it is unlikely to be an isolated incident since human traffickers were
likely to have smuggled a group of children into the country.
The number of victims trafficked into Britain last year spiked by more than
50 percent compared to the previous year, of whom 371 children were either
used as slaves or sexually abused, said the report.
The countries from where children were trafficked included Vietnam, Nigeria,
China, Bangladesh and Romania, the report said.
Child protection charities have warned that the demand for organ transplants
in Britain is being exploited by criminal gangs, who snatch children from
target countries and smuggle them into the UK to have their organs
harvested.
"Traffickers are exploiting the demand for organs and the vulnerability of
children. It's unlikely that a trafficker is going to take this risk and
bring just one child into the UK. It is likely there was a group", said
Bharti Patel, the chief executive of Ecpat UK, a child protection charity.
This comes as the World Health Organization estimates that as many as 7,000
kidneys are illegally obtained by traffickers each year around the world.
Among other organs being sold on the black market, kidneys are the most
sought-after because one can be removed from a patient without any ill
effects.
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