The police in Cusco, Peru, are looking into newborn trafficking and human trafficking after finding a familial group that appears to specialize in purchasing and selling infants. The story, which involves an unspecified number of kids—possibly 20—a true family network and a deceitful clinic, is presently making the rounds on several local news networks, including Noticia Latina and Peru 21.
The traffic was only found by accident. A few weeks ago, two women carrying a newborn infant were identified by the local media as Fanny Hurtado and Doris Rosa Huayhua. A nurse decided to notify the police because of the peculiar conduct of the two ladies, the apparent discrepancy in the documents displayed, and—most importantly—the purported mother's unwillingness to breastfeed the infant, who she subsequently acknowledged was not her child.
From then, the investigations got under way, and in the days that followed, internet chats started to surface that appeared to support the theory of a network devoted to trafficking in young people. Paulo Rivera, the prosecutor in charge of the case, emphasized that the goal of these talks was to find mothers who were in precarious situations, and then to haggle over the sale of the children to the highest bidder.
The main theory, according to Latina Noticias, is that Rosa Huayhua, who is still at large, served as a go-between for the child's biological mother and Fanny Hurtado, who would have illegally purchased the child. It is unclear, however, whether the child was actually kidnapped.
The Tres Cruces de Oro clinic served as the operational hub for recruitment and birth certificate issuance. According to what has been reconstructed, women who intended to have an abortion were persuaded to postpone their procedure and buy the child instead after it was born.
Another theory put out by the detectives is that Fanny Hurtado, who appears to reside in Rome, would act as a middleman who would later transport the kid overseas to be given to a family in Europe.
The investigations are still being conducted right now.