… Child protection squads have been posted at the border with the Dominican Republic and at the airport in Port-au-Prince where some aid workers have reported seeing children dropped off by car and flown out by charter aircraft.
⢠Hospital staff have been asked to report any adults claiming to be related to injured children following reports of criminals posing as volunteers or even doctors.
⢠President Reve Preval has announced that any adoptions must receive his personal authorisation.
The potential for abuse is enormous. In one makeshift camp established on a Port-au-Prince football pitch, where 450 families have settled since the earthquake, a Times reporter found 38 children who were either orphaned by the January 12 quake or have lost contact with their parents.
“They’re in danger… They could fall into the hands of traffickers and pimps – especially the girls,” Blemurned Junior, the camp¹s senior social worker, told the Times.

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