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Busted! - CDA uncovers child-smuggling ring
Saturday, March 02, 2013
DETECTIVES from the Organised Crime Investigative Division (OCID) are conducting investigations into a suspected child-smuggling ring operating between Jamaica and an unnamed Caribbean territory.
The operation was stumbled upon by the Child Development Agency (CDA) and the case turned over to the police.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Youth and Culture — under which the CDA falls — in a statement to the media said the situation came to light out of investigations by the CDA since January this year.
"So far, one person resident in a United Kingdom Overseas Territory in the region has been taken into custody by the Jamaican police in connection with the case. The police are continuing investigations into the matter, which is now before the court," the ministry said.
A child, who nearly fell victim to the traffickers, is now in the care of the CDA.
In the meantime, the ministry said "prosecution of the matter will flow from the investigations, in keeping with Jamaica being party to the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography".
"The action is also in keeping with the country's signing and ratification of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime," it said.
The CDA is mandated to provide services for children deemed in need of care and protection.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2MO3m5dtb
Saturday, March 02, 2013
DETECTIVES from the Organised Crime Investigative Division (OCID) are conducting investigations into a suspected child-smuggling ring operating between Jamaica and an unnamed Caribbean territory.
The operation was stumbled upon by the Child Development Agency (CDA) and the case turned over to the police.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Youth and Culture — under which the CDA falls — in a statement to the media said the situation came to light out of investigations by the CDA since January this year.
"So far, one person resident in a United Kingdom Overseas Territory in the region has been taken into custody by the Jamaican police in connection with the case. The police are continuing investigations into the matter, which is now before the court," the ministry said.
A child, who nearly fell victim to the traffickers, is now in the care of the CDA.
In the meantime, the ministry said "prosecution of the matter will flow from the investigations, in keeping with Jamaica being party to the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography".
"The action is also in keeping with the country's signing and ratification of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime," it said.
The CDA is mandated to provide services for children deemed in need of care and protection.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz2MO3m5dtb