Baby Trafficking Ring Exposed: Moroccan Mothers Selling Infants to Spain and France

According to the daily Assabah, these baby trafficking networks, born to single mothers, operate with impunity and without any concern. The phenomenon has become so widespread in recent years that human rights organizations have stepped up to sound the alarm and call on the government to address this human tragedy.

The Spanish authorities are said to have spotted Moroccan single mothers traveling to Spain and France to get rid of their children in order to avoid the recriminations related to an extramarital sex life, and above all, to shield themselves from the scandal in Morocco.

According to the same source, 31 Spaniards were involved in the baby trafficking that was carried out with the complicity of certain doctors, nurses and managers of Spanish clinics and hospitals. Civil society and child rights NGOs are calling on the authorities of the two cities to address this scourge, especially since Morocco has ratified the protocol relating to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child since 2000.

The most scandalous case of baby trafficking linked to the sale of 25,000 Moroccan babies to European families is still fresh in people’s minds. The mastermind of this network was a retired woman living in Melilla.

This case had caused a great stir in the media and human rights associations. They demanded that the State take strong action to ensure that Moroccan children have the right to be protected against all forms of discrimination, the right to have a refuge, to be rescued, and to have decent living conditions.