Yanti: "They sold the baby for RM12,000"
July 1, 2003
THE newborn baby meant everything to Yanti (not her real name). Early in June she risked her life to rescue Leha, her week-old baby, from the hands of a baby trafficking syndicate in Sarawak. Jumping from a rooftop and running through the jungle, Yanti escaped from a house on Jalan Sekama in Kuching where the syndicate held hostage pregnant Indonesian women to give birth to babies for sale.
Yanti, 23, is the epitome of an Indonesian girl d
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