Ukrainian woman arrested for child trafficking in Georgia

A Ukrainian woman has been arrested for child trafficking in Georgia, announces the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

The detainee faces 14 to 17 years of imprisonment.

The detention took place in a Kutaisi hospital on April 25.

A police report states that the woman arrived in Georgia with 10 children from Russia on April 8 and was going to move to the occupied territory of Abkhazia.

All the ten children have the woman’s surname. However, four of them were born in 2017, which raised suspicions of trafficking. An interrogation of the witnesses revealed that the woman was aggressively treating the children, which served as grounds for issuing a restraining order.

A test will be conducted to determine the biological connection of the children and the detainee, 

For the protection of the children's safety and health, two elder children still remain at the hospital, while the remaining eight children have been taken to a shelter.