THE RISING PRICE OF BABIES
After her contact with these adoption agents, Lily purportedly looked for more babies to be adopted, enlisting the help of other defendants who allegedly acted as recruiters, caretakers as well as document forgers to obscure the babies’ origins.
The suspected syndicate members trawled through social media and joined several online adoption groups looking for parents hoping to give up their newborns, the majority of whom were from the Bandung area of West Java.
To sweeten the deal, the recruiters allegedly provided between 9 million rupiah and 15 million rupiah to parents.
“The birth parents were under the impression that their children would be adopted by the defendants and they would still have some contact with their children many years down the line,” Sukanda said.
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