According to the International Organisation for Migration, Geneva-based humanitarian groups, child trafficking in Vietnam has risen dramatically in the last few years.

The report said some children were sold up to US$5000 each. Which is about AU$8500 and that Vietnamese women are rushing to produce babies to sell them to foreigners, unlike in the past, when adopted children were mostly abandon children or those coming from very poor families.

Worst of all government officials get involved in it as well, it says.  In an incident where “nine people involved in a ring which trafficked in 199 babies abroad from 1995 to 1997…” some were sentenced up to 20 years behind bars

People involved were “provincial official and the director of an orphan-care centre.”  Parents from poor families were mislead by the defendants into believing that their children were taken to be looked after by the defendants’ relatives The Straits Times reported.

J.Lam