ASEAN HEADLINE-CYBERCRIME | THAILAND: Thai Facebook page uncovers infant selling trend
ANN/THE STRAITS TIMES – A Thai Facebook page has uncovered a disturbing trend of individuals attempting to sell infants through the platform, which is currently inaccessible. Posts shared by Thai netizens in the group showed inquiries from individuals seeking to purchase Thai female infants.
One user questioned why legal adoption wasn’t pursued instead. Another participant noted the paperwork, qualifications and high costs associated with the legal process, suggesting that buying a baby through the Facebook group was a simpler alternative.
One potential buyer revealed an income of only THB18,500 per month, which adoption agencies might consider insufficient. Additional reports emerged of teenage mothers posting pregnancy photos in the group and soliciting bids for their babies.
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But these would often turn out to be a scam.
Prospective baby buyers, after supporting the pregnant teens for nine full months in the hope of getting a child, would find the supposedly pregnant teen ghosting them. A group member posted that he or she had spent more than THB50,000 trying to adopt a child and had been scammed many times. The revelation has generated much interest on social media, with many netizens expressing concern that these adoptions were not done with honest intentions and pointed towards human trafficking.
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The private baby-selling Facebook group is currently locked and not visible on online search.
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported up to 400,000 Internet users aged between 12 and 17 in Thailand were victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse cases per year, but only between one per cent and three per cent of victims had reported such cases to the police.
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