From Tuoi Tre News:
Hanoi police arrested two women on Sunday for allegedly selling a nine-month-old baby from Bo De Pagoda, a home for orphaned and abandoned children in Long Bien District, for US$1,650.
One of the detainees is Nguyen Thi Thanh Trang, 37, the caretaker of the children supported by the pagoda, and the other is Pham Thi Nguyet, 35, a woman of northern Ninh Binh Province.
The women have been charged with “trading in, fraudulently exchanging or appropriating children pursuant to Article 120 of the Penal Code.
The boy has been brought up at the orphanage since October 2013, when he was found in front of the pagoda, police said.
When he arrived, a couple who often visited the pagoda agreed to be godparents to the boy. They named him Cu Nguyen Cong and often visited him.
In November 2013, the boy became ill and was hospitalized. He was discharged back to the pagoda a month later.
In the first days of 2014, Cong disappeared from the pagoda. No one, including his godparents, knew where he had gone. Investigations show that Trang and Nguyet sold Cong for VND35 million ($1,650).
After her arrest, Trang pleaded guilty to trading in children…
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