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CHILD TRAFFICKING BOOM EVIDENT IN BULGARIA-REPORT

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Bulgaria and Romania feature among the East European countries that experienced a child trafficking boom, the website of People reported.

Investigation showed that poor families in those countries sold their babies at the price of 3000 euro. Some of the infants sold are only six weeks old.

Baby sale boom came about after Romania's and Bulgaria's European union (EU) accession. Free movement within the EU made it easier to carry out child trafficking schemes , the report said.

The report said that some traffickers used mediators to steal babies from families who refused to sell them.

Media investigators pretended to be a couple who wanted to adopt a child in the town of Buzau, 60 miles northeast of Romania's capital of Bucharest. They were offered a baby for 15 000 euro and a two-year old child for 3000 euro.

No one attempted to inspect the background of the couple or whether it would be appropriate family for the children, the report said.

Thousands of children in Bulgaria and Romania become victims of trafficking and dealers make fortune from families without children coming from rich EU countries like UK, the report said.

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