In Kenya children are sold (and bought) for less than 150 euros.
In the country of endless poverty and corruption, where the only joy and hope has always been communities, families and precisely babies.
It is well known that in the hospitals of big cities there is a flourishing market for babies that are sold with the blessing of needy parents and the intercession of doctors and nurses who often earn much more than the parents, in the criminal act.

Some time ago, we had reported on an investigation by Kenyan television station Ntv, which uncovered a baby trade at a hospital in the northwestern county of Kisumu, showing how infants were sold for as much as 7,000 euros for a boy and 6 for a girl, while needy mothers are promised a maximum of 1,000 euros.

Now, however, a far more disturbing episode has come to light, because the amount for which a two-year-old child was sold is considerably less, and especially because the mother got rid of it without the knowledge of her husband and father, trying to convince him that it was dead.
The man, a 30-year-old man from Thika, a town near Nairobi, told judges that he left for work in the morning, but when he returned his wife was not home. She later called him, informing him that she had taken the child to the hospital in the capital because he was not well.
The father said he was surprised, because the baby had appeared very healthy until the same morning, but he waited for the woman to return, after she told him she would spend the night in the health facility.

The woman returned home the next day but without the baby and staged a tearful account of her son's alleged death, without being able to know and say what he had died from.
"I will have the documents in the next few days," she assured.
The father did not see eye to eye, and went to the hospital but the child's name was neither in the admission records nor in the death records.
After several back-and-forths with the hospital and the supposed doctor who took the body, which lasted two days, the man found out that his wife was lying.

At that point, it was the facility guard who revealed that he knew where the child was and that he was alive and healthy. The buyers, a couple from the working-class neighborhood of Pangani, reportedly paid 20,000 shillings (about 135 euros at today's exchange rate) for the baby and also intended to pay another 60 euros or so to obtain the baby's papers.
Aside from the economic conditions, however, which would not have changed that much with that meager amount, the husband told the judges that he could not explain the incident, however, revealing that the woman had refused to breastfeed him. In any case, the ease with which minors can be bought, sold and perhaps resold in the country is disturbing. Not least because behind the trade, there may be not only a desire for motherhood by women who cannot have children and couples who do not, but organ trafficking.