7 detained for child trafficking, including mother and doctors
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Seven individuals, including a mother and two doctors, have been detained by Georgian law enforcers for child trafficking.
The detainees attempted to sell a newborn child for $13,000, the investigative department of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia reported today.
The ministry reports that during pregnancy the detainees found an individual who wanted the child and was ready to pay the money.
To conceal the crime, the mother of the newborn was registered in the name of another individual at the hospital for consultations and giving birth,” the Ministry of Finance said.
The ministry says that the child was sold on February 6, 2020, shortly before the individuals were detained.
One of the detainees has a previous criminal record for a similar offence.
The detainees face 14 to 17 years in prison.
The newborn is now under the care of the state.
Police have detained a Moldovan citizen for violence against her husband and children in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The individual, identified only as M.Sh., and born in 1986, verbally and physically abused her husband and children.
Police have detained three individuals for child trafficking in Tbilisi, reports the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).
Ten of 11 individuals, who have been detained in a joint operation by Georgian and foreign law enforcers, for child trafficking and child pornography charges have been sent to ptetrial detention. One man sent to pre-detention is a citizen of the US, who came to Georgia in 2011 to teach English in a village of the Samegrelo region, in western Georgia, where he did so for nine months.
A criminal group involving 11 individuals have been identified and detained on charges of children trafficking and making child pornography in a joint operation of Georgian, US, Australian law enforcers and Europol. One American and one Australian citizen are among the detainees, while others are citizens of Georgia, including the parents and relatives of the affected children.
Tbilisi City Court has sentenced an American citizen, one of nine to be tried in a child pornography case in Georgia, to 10 years in prison. The American citizen is one of the defendants in a child pornography case with whom the Tbilisi City Court has approved a plea agreement.
The US Department of States has released its Trafficking in Persons report for 2020 in which Georgia remains in Tier 1, along with the US, UK, Switzerland and others, for fully meeting minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking. Georgia is the only Eastern Partnership state in Tier 1. “The Georgian government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period; therefore Georgia remained in Tier 1. These efforts included increasing overall prosecution and victim protection efforts."
A man has been detained for forcing his nine- and 12-year-old children to beg in the street or sell small items in various districts of Tbilisi since 2019 till November 2020.
A father and son have been arrested for human trafficking in Ninotsminda, a town in the southern Georgia region of Samtskhe-Javakheti which borders Armenia.
Police have detained 37-year-old Gela Chaladze, former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), for human trafficking in Tbilisi.