Two jailed for child trafficking in Vietnam

From The Independent Online:

A court in Hanoi sentenced two people to four and five years in jail for planning to sell a new-born baby in Hanoi, a court official said Wednesday.

Hanoi People’s Court sentenced Nguyen Van Hai, 42, and his sister-in-law Ngo Thi Sang, 37 for trafficking children, court secretary Tran Cong Hach said.

The pair was arrested in January 2010 when police caught them taking a 10-day-old boy out of a bus station in Hanoi. They were unable to provide the child’s identity.

Hai admitted he bought the baby for 40 million dong [approximately $1900 US] around R13 000) from a female acquaintance and then asked Sang to bring the child to Hanoi to sell to an infertile couple.

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