Mexican doctors arrested for allegedly selling newborns

Baby Chums - 6th Nov 2009

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Caesarean Section: Three Mexican doctors have been arrested for their alleged role in selling newborns after telling parents the children had died. In October of 2008, Vanessa Castillo went to Central West Hospital, ready to give birth to her baby girl. What she didn’t realize was that she was going to inadvertently fall into a complex scheme of child trafficking. Shortly after giving birth through Caesarean Section, Castillo was told that her baby had been transferred to another Hospital due to medical... Read full story at Baby Chums

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