TRAFFIC IN CHILDREN
A sensational allegation has been mado by Sister Henrietta Arendt, until recently employed by tho Stuttgart polico in looking aftor waifs and strays. She hud been for somo months in Berlin investigating-, and declares that sho has come on traces of a well organised traffic in children, who aro sold abroad at prices ranging from £15 to £500. Those children, it is alleged are sent in large numbers, notably to Paris , foundling hospitals, where they aro bupportod for some timo •fey tho French nation, and then sold for various immoral purposes. Sister Arendt has_ discovered people in Berlin whose business it is to accept tho care of children for those purposes. She complains that although she has mado repeated representations to the police she bas received no assistance from this quarter.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1912, Page 12
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134TRAFFIC IN CHILDREN Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1912, Page 12
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