Child Trafficking: The Consequence of Lack of Leadership

If the Democratic Republic of Congo is better known for its political instability and its incessant wars, in particular, in the east of the country, there is one of the terrible consequences of which we speak little, it is the trafficking of minor children.

There are countless children reported missing in the DRC to date. Worse, the authorities do not seem to be taking drastic measures to fight against this scourge which nevertheless affects many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. But foreign networks (homosexuals and pedophiles) act discreetly and with impunity, with the complicity of the Congolese, attracted by the sums of money offered. They organize human trafficking, children, in this case, for wealthy Western clients.

In 2013, around 20 children aged 2 months to 5 years were found in an orphanage in Mbuji-Mayi, capital of the eastern province of the DRC, by residents who ransacked the place. They suspected the “pseudo” orphanage of selling children to gay Americans, cover from an NGO called FAGEDAS.

Seven supervisors of this orphanage had been arrested, while the representatives of the NGO are still not found.

Another terrible affair that began in 2015. A dozen Congolese children aged 3 or 4 had been taken from their biological parents, supposedly sent to summer camp by the NGO Planet Junior. In reality, they had been sent to an orphanage in Kinshasa, before being put up for adoption in Belgium with false papers. At least 3 children were affected in Belgium.

The investigation led to the indictment of seven Belgian officials. Among which, members or former members of the cabinet of Rachid Madrane, the former minister in charge of adoption for the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

Sources:

A child trafficking network for the benefit of American homosexuals dismantled in the DRC

“Stolen” children in the DRC: several Belgian officials charged

Child trafficking is on the rise on the African continent, according to the US State Department

“People have been complicit in these purchases of children for tens of thousands of children, says Georges-Henri Beauthier, lawyer for 2 adoptive families. Not only in Belgium, there are also in France, in the United States and it seems also in the Netherlands. According to him, the Belgian sector was able to work “ because there were people who, in administrations or cabinets, participated in this enormous horror .”

In this investigation, opened by the Belgian federal prosecutor's office, only Julienne Pemba, director of the Tumaini orphanage in Kinshasa had been charged with hostage-taking and human trafficking. For Georges-Henri Beauthier, today, the investigation is at a turning point. “ From the start, my clients have said that they don't just want a Congolese woman to be punished - even if she has an essential role,” explains the lawyer. They want all those responsible for the chain of this rigged adoption, this kidnapping, to be brought before the court and for a judge to decide on their guilt .''

These 2 cases illustrate a sad reality: a total absence of leadership from the political class. If the role of the State is to protect the population and ensure its well-being, most African countries run by corrupt and irresponsible authorities have abandoned this sovereign role of protecting the population, in favor of an organized mafia, having ramifications with networks of paedophiles, homosexuals, miners and other organ traffickers. Let's hope that our authorities quickly take the necessary measures to save the lives of our children from the hands of these predators.

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