Operatives of the Philippine National Police (PNP) – Women and Children’s Protection Center (WCPC) arrested a mother for allegedly selling her 13-day-old baby online in Taguig City.
The police pretended to want to adopt the baby when the suspect offered it to them online.
“The baby is thirteen days old. It was offered on the internet, and we also had an undercover police officer. That was our way to entrap the seller,” said Police Brigadier General Portia Manalad, chief of the PNP-WCPC.
The suspect is facing charges of violating RA 7610 or the “Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act and Human Trafficking.”
“Actually, we really discourage them from ending up here in illegal adoption. Because the DSWD said that they have eased the process to adopt a child,” Manalad said.
Based on data from the PNP-WCPC, there are 22 social media sites offering illegal adoption. The PNP has removed some of them, but there are still those operating that the police are continuing to monitor.
