Moroccan police arrest 30 people suspected of “trafficking in newborns” or “blackmail to benefit from public health services” Among the suspects are 18 security agents, a doctor, two nurses, health professionals as well as intermediaries. Some of those arrested are suspected of being intermediaries in the sale of newborns in complicity with single mothers.

Families wishing to adopt abandoned babies have reportedly adopted these children sold by single mothers, a security source told MAP.