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A self-confessed human trafficker in the resort city of Varna showed off toddlers with a selling price of 60,000 euros (£40,000) each.The BBC sting was stopped before any children were actually sold.Bulgaria's interior ministry says it has detained three people,including one who said he was a trafficker."Harry", as the smuggler called himself,was led to believe that the baby was destined for a shady British businessman whose criminal record barred him from legal adoption routes.He never asked what would happen to the child who,he said,could be smuggled to London via routes he had used in the past to traffic prostitutes.For an extra fee,he said he would personally deliver a child to London.A BBC TV Ten O'Clock News team which set up the sting spent more than a month in Varna,lulling Harry into revealing his criminal activities.Bulgaria has been under strong international pressure to crack down on organised crime since joining the European Union earlier this year.Harry said he had previously smuggled children to Germany and Norway and boasted of trafficking prostitutes from Bulgaria to Spain,the Netherlands and Ireland.The BBC team covertly filmed some of the children he was offering.The toddlers were brought to street cafes by relatives or other adults,and seemed oblivious to what was going on around them.It appears that their families were complicit and there was no evidence of them being coerced.Some spoke of being unable to afford to look after them.Parents can also be prosecuted under a new Bulgarian law for selling their child.To read more go to:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6917308.stm
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