Parents selling children - Poverty continues to plague Andhra Pradesh
Due to poverty, parents in andhra pradesh are increasingly selling their children. In Andhra Pradesh's Elluru, Aswarapet, and mangalagiri districts, two children have been sold in the last three days. The mothers wept as they explained that they had sold their children since the family claimed they couldn't care for them due to poverty. "I have seen situations of couples adopting and raising children unlawfully before," Surya, a senior officer with the Elluru Child Protection Organization, said in response to the spate of incidents.
However, some groups in the state are now selling infants on the black market. This is pitiful. Obstetricians and hospital workers have an important part in the sale of newborns. They serve as go-betweens. Children are sold for a price ranging from Rs 60,000 to Rs 5 lakh. In connection with the illicit selling of children, he claimed 11 people have been arrested thus far.
"Physicians and medical staff know the economic position of the family being admitted to the hospital," Francis, a member of the board of directors of the andhra pradesh Adoption Resource Agency, said. parents are indoctrinated to sell their children if the family is poor. Some parents become engrossed in this. V. gandhi Babu, a former member of the andhra pradesh Commission for the Protection of Children's Rights, has proposed for the creation of a body charged with preventing child abduction in the state.