Dressed in a white jumpsuit, mittens and socks, the baby girl lay quietly in the Malaysian heat.
"I picked her up and she smiled," said Hartini Zainudin, recalling the hot Saturday morning that changed her life.
Hartini is well known in Malaysia as a child rights activist who rescues unwanted babies.
She thought this was another of those cases. But then the woman who had been caring for the baby at a house in the port town of Klang, about an hour's drive from Kuala Lumpur, got down to business.
For $3,000, she said, Hartini could take the baby home immediately and raise her as her own.
"They said, 'You can buy her … or she'll go to Thailand'," Hartini recalled.
She stepped outside and phoned a fellow activist, who told her that trafficking gangs sometimes maim young children before forcing them to beg in Thailand. Full story...
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"I picked her up and she smiled," said Hartini Zainudin, recalling the hot Saturday morning that changed her life.
Hartini is well known in Malaysia as a child rights activist who rescues unwanted babies.
She thought this was another of those cases. But then the woman who had been caring for the baby at a house in the port town of Klang, about an hour's drive from Kuala Lumpur, got down to business.
For $3,000, she said, Hartini could take the baby home immediately and raise her as her own.
"They said, 'You can buy her … or she'll go to Thailand'," Hartini recalled.
She stepped outside and phoned a fellow activist, who told her that trafficking gangs sometimes maim young children before forcing them to beg in Thailand. Full story...
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