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Child Labor in Maputo (2010)

A child labor case from 2010 in Maputo, Mozambique. 1 source on file.

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What happened

Had 15 children locked in a house, lacking proper conditions for children to live. The trafficker claimed that he was running a house for religious instruction, though it is not registered with the government.

Response and intervention

the children were liberated. They are "investigating" whether or not this was trafficking Police investigated suspected trafficking attempt after neighbors alerted them. Police freed the children. It is unknown what services they are receiving, though they were emancipated. Mozambican police http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=nw20100304222012998C455994&set_id=

Sources

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Sex Trafficking2010

Maputo, Mozambique, 2010

Mozambique MZ

"Over the past three weeks City Press visited Maputo twice to infiltrate the syndicate. On our first visit the syndicate paraded six Chinese women (four had already been sold) and three Mozambican women for sale for between R5000 and R10000. When we returned last week only one Mozambican woman was still for sale. The others had already been brought to South Africa. The syndicate members said they could find more Mozambicans in a few days and that two Chinese women were arriving in the country that Saturday. We provided this information, with more details, to the police during a meeting with a top Home Affairs official. Three Chinese men and a Chinese woman were arrested at the airport on Saturday morning as they entered the country. A second woman was collected by a local man and they managed to evade the police. The four arrested are all allegedly linked to the trafficking syndicate. This week another Mozambican, a bank official, was also arrested for alleged links to the syndicate. All eight suspects are in custody and are being questioned."

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