THE two-story house on Jalan Sekama in Kuching, Malaysia, adjoins a police station. So no one suspected that this house was the headquarters of a baby trafficking syndicate run by a plump woman called Bong Chiew Fah—better known as Aunty Bong.

Aunty Bong's nefarious operation was unmasked in June when police raided the house. Inside, they found six babies and 10 Indonesian women, all pregnant. The women were locked up in the house, and