Jamaican Child Trafficking Ring Busted

“The Child Development Agency (CDA) has uncovered a suspected ring  involving the trafficking of Jamaican children to another Caribbean country.

The CDA, an executive agency of the Ministry of Youth and Culture,  has turned over the case to the Police Organised Crime Investigation Division  (OCID).

So far the Jamaican police have taken one person, resident in a  United Kingdom Overseas Territory in the region, into custody in connection with  the case.

The Police are continuing investigations into the matter, which is  now before the Court.

A child, who was the subject of a suspected human trafficking  attempt, is now in the care of the CDA.

Revelation of the ring arose out of investigations by the CDA  since January this year, as part of what the Agency describes as its “ongoing  due diligence to protect Jamaica’s children”.

Prosecution of the matter will flow from the investigations, in  keeping with Jamaica being party to the Optional Protocol to the United Nations  Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child  Prostitution and Child Pornography, the CDA said in a release Friday.”

CDA uncovers suspected human trafficking ring involving Jamaican children

[Jamaica Observer 3/1/13]

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