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She walked back into the house and agreed to buy the little girl, another deal done in Malaysia's lucrative underground baby trade. An exclusive Al Jazeera investigation for East has revealed that baby selling rackets are thriving in Malaysia. A complex web of traffickers and doctors is turning the youngest, most vulnerable human lives into commodities, putting them up for sale to the highest bidder.
In this Southeast Asian nation, where legal adoption can take years, people are handing over thousands of dollars to baby sellers and turning to corrupt officials to help register the children they buy as their own. The babies offered for sale come from a variety of women. Some are poor migrant workers who, by law, are not allowed to have children in the country. Others come from Malaysian women, including some who are forced to give up their babies to avoid the stigma associated with having a child out of wedlock.
The buyers are often childless couples desperate to start a family and frustrated with the country's convoluted adoption procedures. But activists say some babies are bought for more sinister purposes, sometimes by syndicates who groom children for paedophiles. During a four-month undercover investigation, Al Jazeera discovered just how easy it is to find a baby to buy in Malaysia and to obtain the false documents required to change a baby's identity.
Websites and social media pages offer numerous babies who are "in need of a loving home". The posts detail the baby's due date, expected medical costs and the so-called "consolation fee" to be paid to the birth mother. Some of the people behind the social media posts advertising infants are in fact baby sellers.
After first making contact online, Al Jazeera's team met a woman who called herself 'Bonda', which means 'mother' in Malay. She sent us a photo catalogue of pregnant women for potential buyers to choose from.
It lists the women's names, jobs and stages of pregnancy. It's impossible to know where all of the babies offered for sale in Malaysia come from, but not all are willingly given up by their mothers. When Siti discovered that she was pregnant, she was a young, unmarried university student.
In this Muslim-majority country, having a child out of wedlock is not just frowned upon; it's a Shariah offence for a Muslim woman to have sex with a man who is not her husband. Siti's parents forced her to stay at a home for unwed mothers on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur until she gave birth. It was a sort of social compact. Even though the system has now morphed into something grotesque, traffickers exploit the false, residual glow of altruism.
This bogus sheen of charity is perhaps why we are able to get slave owners to talk to us on camera. Perhaps it's also because having a slave is so commonplace as to be almost entirely uncontroversial here.
We meet Onita Aristide in a shantytown precariously perched over a ravine filled with trash and also wild pigs and goats. Aristide is a mother of two who sells sandals in the local market. For four months she's owned a "restavek" nicknamed Ti Soeur Creole for "little sister.
She sleeps on the floor of Onita Aristide's tiny home. There are a bunch of hard questions I want to ask this woman, for example, why doesn't she send the girl to school? But the scars on Ti Soeur's arms suggest I should tread lightly.
Knowing Aristide doesn't speak any English, I broach the topic with our translator. Do you think I'm correct? We follow Ti Soeur as she goes to fetch water from the communal well. This gives us a chance to ask her questions without her owners hearing.
She's a bright-eyed year-old with short hair. When I ask her questions about the marks on her arm, she says, "The lady did it to me with an electric wire.
As I later learn, this appears to be a standard punishment -- whipping restaveks with the sort of electric cord you might you use to plug in a toaster or a laptop. The translator explains, "If she doesn't go and pick up the water, they beat her up.
If she doesn't sweep, beat her up. By the time we visit Ti Soeur at 10 a. After meeting Ti Souer, we decided to go find her parents, to get a sense of why they would give their child away. Following a lead, we drive out of the throbbing, chaotic city, hours away, into the lush countryside.
It's beautiful out here. We see clouds resting lazily in green valleys. We see women on their way to market, carrying impossibly large loads of goods on their heads. But you can't miss the deprivation: It's everywhere. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere -- the result of decades of bad, brutal, kleptocratic leadership, and also, many believe, negative interference from outside powers, including the United States.
Haiti's poverty is on full display as we pull up to the house where Ti Soeur's mother lives. It's a shack, housing three families. His new book, Things That Matter , will be published in April. Follow on Twitter Like on Facebook.
What a wonderful post! As a teacher I wish all of my students would grow in the environment you are describing! I can say that when parents are going through a divorce they fail at meeting any of the 10 things children need.
I am working with a couple of families right now and I am shocked to realize this, although deep down I did, but maybe denial has set in. They say when parents get divorced the world no longer revolves around the child, but now revolves around the parents. Something is messed up with this! No marriage should just revolve around a child. No home should revolve around a child. A family is a family, every member is important. Loveless marriages are bad, whether they are verbally abusive, or non-violent, etc.
Choose your spouse with care, nurture your husband or wife and your marriage as a precious thing and your children will never have to suffer a broken home due to divorce. I absolutely agree with all of your tips. I especially agree with love, and attention. I believe that a sub-point for discipline could be boundaries.
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