via The Monitor (though the comments are rank with sexism and classism)
REYNOSA – Amado Torres Vega sees his work as a simple act of charity.
He rescues newborn children from a life of poverty in Mexico and helps place them with financially stable couples in the United States, he told Mexican police this week…Over the past year, they say, he bought at least 15 children from poor Mexican women and sold them to adoptive parents in the United States. Some of the women reportedly got pregnant over and over simply to collect a paycheck.
According to Mexican authorities, they include:
* a 39-year-old mother who told police she carried three children to term for Torres so she could pay medical bills for a 9-year-old daughter suffering from bone marrow cancer; she would also save the babies’ umbilical cords for Mexican stem cell treatments on her daughter before selling the newborns.
* and a 21-year-old suffering from AIDS who got pregnant and sold a child to pay for her own care.
