The Baby Stealers: A Mother's Story - BBC Africa Eye documentary

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  • In November 2020, #BBCAfricaEye released an investigation into child trafficking that sent shockwaves throughout Kenya. Many of the children featured in the film were stolen. But others were willingly sold by their own mothers, often for tiny sums. This is the story of one mother and her baby, trapped between poverty and the child traffickers.
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    UPDATE 16/10/23: 🇰🇪 Three years since the broadcast of the 2020 investigation ‘The Baby Stealers’, #BBCAfricaEye revisits some of Nairobi’s poorest neighbourhoods to find out what impact the investigation had in the fight against child trafficking in Kenya. Watch 'What Happened to the Baby Stealers?' here: 🎦 • What Happened to the B...
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  • @beatricemumbua3339
    @beatricemumbua3339 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Literally in tears... I can't imagine giving up my baby let alone selling. The child is helpless and innocent.

  • @brendaekaya2068
    @brendaekaya2068 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    I don't understand why after selling all those kids...this women still look so miserable .

    • @waithirabecky
      @waithirabecky 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      My thought also

    • @florencewamuyu6194
      @florencewamuyu6194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Juu sio kazi imebarikiwa, ni laana

    • @XR3iescort
      @XR3iescort 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      How can a mother that has felt a baby kicking and growing inside of her, be happy to sell that child, she can't, that bond has been made, that's your own flesh & blood. I can't imagine the full hurt & mental pain they are feeling at having to give them up because of poverty, with no one to help them, that's a knife that cuts deep. As for those baby merchants, there's a day of reckoning waiting for them...God is going to deal with them!!!

    • @cmartin5903
      @cmartin5903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She will look miserable, its psychological effects should be unbearable. But where are the fathers, the supposed breadwinner?

    • @XR3iescort
      @XR3iescort 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@cmartin5903 the so-call fathers are not interested, all they wanted was a good time. Once they got what they wanted they were off like a shot....one day it will catch up with them....it'll come back to haunt them, you can't go around ruining people's lives and get away with it!!!

  • @InTheEndOnlykindnessMatters
    @InTheEndOnlykindnessMatters 3 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    This was hard to watch especially the ending . God bless all those mothers who don’t have a choice and may God protect those sweet babies .

  • @jessipolite3420
    @jessipolite3420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    BBC Please keep investigating this. God bless those women that feel this is the only way.

  • @nananazimam2060
    @nananazimam2060 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This lady needs to be sold as well

  • @lildramatic4760
    @lildramatic4760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    the mother’s eyes.... i’m adopted, and i know my birth mother was young.but that’s nothing like what these women are going through. for some you get the sense the child would be all they had, but they can’t afford to keep them.
    does the actual adoption system in kenya provide support to women in poverty? $95 isn’t much and if a legal adoption gives them only paperwork i can see why they’d chose that option.

    • @d.c.347
      @d.c.347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      💯💯💯💯

    • @chrisouko1862
      @chrisouko1862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Your argument makes a lot of sense. There are women who cannot afford to take care of children, so they opt to place them under adoption. However, with the unsupportive adoption system in Kenya a woman would prefer to sell her baby and get some money that will help her figure out the way forward. If only we had a legal system supporting these women, we'd have less cases of them selling their babies to peddlers

    • @lydiamngoma9507
      @lydiamngoma9507 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Adoption is a hectic experience here, you may even give up placing a baby on adoption

    • @mikehardwick1446
      @mikehardwick1446 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lydia is right. I live in the States and I have seen both sides. In the States all you need to be is an upstanding citizen with no criminal record and the ability to provide a good and safe home for a child, in Kenya though the adoption process is made SO difficult that it may create ideas for people who are desperate for babies to illegally get them. The adoption process should be made easier so that those who would like to adopt babies can do so in a legal manner and also the government create centers for desperate mothers to get some aid to help them keep those beautiful babies. The pain and trauma they experience must be terrible.

  • @jahm1104
    @jahm1104 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    16:10 she can’t even look at her baby this is so depressing

  • @rachel14733
    @rachel14733 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    As a mum myself, I felt the pain of the lady who had to give up her baby... hugs mama😢😢😢

  • @kittothekat427
    @kittothekat427 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Poor babies, I hope they are not still being sacrificed as much or at all anymore. And the man making the babies should ashamed!

    • @KAIZORIANEMPIRE
      @KAIZORIANEMPIRE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The women selling these babies could have gone and sold her body for the same price.. why sell your child? " this is forever, and selling her body is only for a time". It means she prefers her own body over her childs. Which is fine, it's choice but these aren't victims. These are just people making a choice.

    • @rachaelb2729
      @rachaelb2729 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KAIZORIANEMPIRE Where is her baby going while she sells her body? Should she leave her new born on the street while she tends to customers so it can be kidnapped instead? She had a hard choice to make and the fact that she asked for help to ensure her child's safety is a big thing. It's clear she was depressed and her mental health was overlooked, she should have been given counselling.

    • @KAIZORIANEMPIRE
      @KAIZORIANEMPIRE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rachaelb2729 I mean lol she can leave it with literally anybody. She could literally pay someone very title money to look after it while she works for like a few hours. She could pay 100 Bob to look after baby for 3 hours someone from her skins then make 1 thousand in the day selling herself. That's profit of 900. She could make a good living like this Evey day 900 instead of 3000 and lose a baby forever. Come on use your head.

    • @rachaelb2729
      @rachaelb2729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KAIZORIANEMPIRE She's homeless, she doesn't have anybody and clearly wasn't in the right headspace. Did you not watch the previous documentary, mothers can't trust anybody on the streets. The women couldn't even sleep without fear of their children being taken. A homeless mother trusted Anita with her baby girl and she kidnapped her. Also selling your body isn't a good living, what happens when she gets HIV (Kenya has the 4th highest rate in the world), murdered or pregnant again? Who's going to care for the baby when she's dead or who will care for even more children? The blame needs to be put on the system for lack of education and help. There's a reason most countries have welfare systems, to help these kind of families. Not forgetting the men who leave their babies without a care, probably to get another women pregnant.

    • @c.j.5455
      @c.j.5455 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KAIZORIANEMPIRE nah. Selling the baby to someone they said would love and raise the baby is better than selling yourself, getting pregnant again, spreading hiv and diseases to your baby through your milk. Who in their right mind would choose to sell themselves when they are promised their baby will be adopted into a good family

  • @esternwairimu4959
    @esternwairimu4959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Lord father lord 😪 imagine giving birth to a child and selling them 💔💔

  • @Beltidame
    @Beltidame 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Thank you for the follow up. I was hoping to hear a response from the government and I’m still hopeful they will intervene because of this documentary.

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You ellect people because they are your tribes men, not because you want this kind of problems solved. What do you expect

  • @sandraketty7930
    @sandraketty7930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very sad😭😭but me I got pregnant at the age of 16 I had no mother and my dad and step mom chased me at home but I didn't give up to my baby I went to mujengo they were paying 400 per day I used to pay rent of 1500 my life was tough no food no medication at the age 16 but now am happy coz I didn't abundle my son he id 4years today and still strong single mom ladies we need to have a strong 💓 we need to think twice there is no situation which is permanent I didn't give up and now I still do work hard to raise him yes.

  • @jamesmaina2
    @jamesmaina2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    57 years later and this is the state of the nation. A failed Nation!!!

  • @nicolelochren9560
    @nicolelochren9560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    When journalists and journalism take a stand and people take notice good things can happen. 🌟

  • @Jewelkraft.
    @Jewelkraft. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I can't imagine living in that situation. How hard it must be for these women. And shame on the father's. That's so inhumane how a mother the queen of her thrown can be treated like that. Just sad

    • @osewehdickson535
      @osewehdickson535 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do not shame men with no intel. You do not know if the father passed or something. We do not need blame games to help

    • @esmeraldagonzales2490
      @esmeraldagonzales2490 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@osewehdickson535 men are used to abandon woman and children without remorse that's is why many orphans

    • @dont_harsh_my_mellow
      @dont_harsh_my_mellow 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@osewehdickson535 It's well known how these likely are ladies in this situation because of a partner that abandoned them. A few are because of their partner passing, but usually it's a case of a man changing his mind and leaving, taking w him the household money.

  • @leannejamieson9855
    @leannejamieson9855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    God will have His say regarding all of this, He knows everyones hearts. God Bless all of those babies and all of the innocents involved.

  • @charlywood
    @charlywood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I'm from West Africa and i used to think we were messed up with our coup d'etat but the whole continent is a mess!

    • @sithgasa2063
      @sithgasa2063 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What is sad and scary to the point of bewildering is that we can point at others as reasons for poverty and disadvantage but who can we honestly blame for our lack of humanity and empathy was this looted and stolen as well is it even possible to steal human nature its disturbing ppl turning into animals

    • @virgobubz
      @virgobubz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sithgasa2063 It is possible to "steal" human nature, but you have to teach it first. We are not born with a sense of society or a responsibility to the collective. We are born feral, humanity must be taught. Also, we must see it displayed. What is taught will fade when it does not support survival. If to act humanely means you may starve and or eventually die as a result, humanity will dissipate, empathy will be go, and survival by any means will be what's left. So, yes, one's humanity and empathy can be "stolen" by a society that does not support it's existence.

  • @vokstheboss
    @vokstheboss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I almost shed tears, being left with no option but to give your child away because you cant support it is just difficult

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      She has to share the loot with a network of government officials too

  • @missgolo7401
    @missgolo7401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Why I'm I not trusting the children's home as well? How sure are we that they are not in cahoots with the traffickers/ sellers. They may get these children! With the way things are I take everything state run organization in Kenya with a pinch of salt. * dont say that I am betraying the country by admitting this things!

    • @yemicakez1057
      @yemicakez1057 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was wondering the same thing 🤔💭....

  • @paulinawacheke8580
    @paulinawacheke8580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is so painful.I am experiencing the same right now.My baby was exchanged, sold and was given a dead child while i was at the theatre while delivering in a certain hospital here in Nairobi.We buried the dead child.Its becoming difficult to get a court order to exhume the buried child and do DNA so that i can unravel the truth.Someone reading this comment please help.Right now i have a scar, have lost my child.So painful!

    • @enlighten274
      @enlighten274 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hope that you got justice.just seen this and saw it was posted by you 2 years ago

  • @lovelygee4405
    @lovelygee4405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Do not use poverty as an excuse to sell your children, some people are in worse condition than you are but still manage to take care of their children no Matter what, this act must be condemned

  • @mercymungai812
    @mercymungai812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is extremely serious, no words to add.

  • @gracewambui6524
    @gracewambui6524 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Sorry mum's.but don't sell your baby to anyone.just hustle and mkule hio kidogo....God will come through for you.hugs mamie's❤️❤️

    • @abwireojiambo6870
      @abwireojiambo6870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sometimes god never comes through. In such cases, they suffer forever

  • @paulnyakxx
    @paulnyakxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    In Kenya, what money can't buy, more money can buy it. Trust me; that includes justice

  • @charmaineforrestdanrte1803
    @charmaineforrestdanrte1803 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When you said to her "you did the right thing" and I saw her grin,, I cried then,, tears are streaming down my face,, she needed to hear that and you are beautiful for saying so,, it's the sad truth😔😥✨✨✨🎀🌙

  • @patriciamuchiri6185
    @patriciamuchiri6185 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This woman should be sentenced a lifetime in jail

  • @elizabethfw2655
    @elizabethfw2655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Why is contraception and healthy sexual behavior still such a taboo in society?

    • @user-ej5nk5yc3l
      @user-ej5nk5yc3l 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      She literally could not pay for food some nights. Condoms & birth control are a luxury not everyone can afford.

    • @elizabethfw2655
      @elizabethfw2655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@user-ej5nk5yc3l that’s why I said that . It should be free, Madelaine.

    • @Masmasini21
      @Masmasini21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@user-ej5nk5yc3l It is free. However when you mix in ignorance, religion, misconceptions, taboo etc into it most never consider it.

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because povery here is the root problem. One day Kenya will pay women to have children and you still wont have enough of them

    • @gloriaamani9424
      @gloriaamani9424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The only reason I don't fuck with Kenyan men is that one said(
      Mbona nivae condom ,kwani we ni malaya)

  • @Fallon_rogerz
    @Fallon_rogerz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Sold a child for $30 😳😳
    Wow the level of poverty in our continent is sad that’s it’s making people so desperate for money n making very poor decisions

  • @BBCAfrica
    @BBCAfrica  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    UPDATE 16/10/23: 🇰🇪 Three years since the broadcast of the 2020 investigation ‘The Baby Stealers’, #BBCAfricaEye revisits some of Nairobi’s poorest neighbourhoods to find out what impact the investigation had in the fight against child trafficking in Kenya. Watch 'What Happened to the Baby Stealers?' here: 🎦 th-cam.com/video/rswDstGDyvs/w-d-xo.html

  • @sissyrayself7508
    @sissyrayself7508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    People should " adopt" Both the mother and child.

  • @somina4003
    @somina4003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Is this Mary Auma a mother? How do you start a business of selling babies like it's a sack of potatoes?

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Be thankful you are not, and pray your descendants don't find themselves, because they might. Your society is the problem, you are all responsible.

    • @somina4003
      @somina4003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@vikitu4793 What is your point?

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@somina4003 Don't act surprised, its normal in a society where everthing and everyone is for sale. Everyone is busy doing it in their own niches. Some are selling babies, some are selling covid-19 certificates, some are selling patients, I suspect someone is selling Kenya rightnow.

    • @carolineobiero8411
      @carolineobiero8411 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vikitu4793 we're almost being sold with Kenya at large

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carolineobiero8411 sad reality indeed

  • @rayibanda8002
    @rayibanda8002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks a lot BBC Africa for exposing such cruel and inhuman practices..it's so painful that such vulnerable mothers are exploited to this extent moreover in the main capital of the country

  • @blessedfela1515
    @blessedfela1515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I became a mum when I was jobless and the dad left. Even so, my greatest worry was that he will come back someday and take my baby with him. Someone told me, that if I wanted to push him so far away, I should beg him and play really desperate. because all he wanted me is to be sad and desperate and suffer, I did exactly that. I begged the idiot real bad and I think the more I begged the more he lost interest in me and enjoyed thinking I was suffering. Now my daughter is 1 year old and veeeery beautiful. I have not heard from the son of a bitch again. And by the way if you want to see a mad learned bitch, touch my daughter....So mum's, just take one day at a time. Someday when a bond forms between you and the child, you will realise how much the dad lost lol

    • @Earthbound369
      @Earthbound369 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God's light be with you & your little girl.
      I truly hope the 2 of you are living well a year after your comment ❤ . Stay strong my dear.

  • @krystynaha2455
    @krystynaha2455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I can't sell my child 🙅🏻‍♀️💔 even if I've gat nothing to eat hmmm

    • @abwireojiambo6870
      @abwireojiambo6870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lucky you. Others don’t have an option

    • @pamelahumphrey2067
      @pamelahumphrey2067 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@abwireojiambo6870Yes, they do, get off their lazy backside and find work.

    • @abwireojiambo6870
      @abwireojiambo6870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pamelahumphrey2067 since you are the hard working one aka chief employer, wapatie kazi waache kuuza watoto.

    • @sakinamahmoudsakinamahmoud967
      @sakinamahmoudsakinamahmoud967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Take ur words back never talks as if u knw tomorow

    • @krystynaha2455
      @krystynaha2455 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pamelahumphrey2067 you're right Pam, my mother raised we her 6 children single handedly when our dad left, she didn't have work but she never sold nor gave out one of us to our relatives, we went hungry with her, one meal per day with her , but she struggled , she used to hawk clothes and sometimes do laundry for people ,she made sure we got a good education and other basic needs, my mum is my inspiration , if she managed to raise 6 children , I can do it too to mine

  • @lornahnyongesa1960
    @lornahnyongesa1960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I've been through hell myself. A mother who is willing to sell her baby is just lazy and doesn't want to take responsibility as a parent. I don't feel sorry for any woman only the innocent babies.

    • @abwireojiambo6870
      @abwireojiambo6870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Don’t feel righteous to judge someone on some situation you have never found yourself in

  • @charmaineforrestdanrte1803
    @charmaineforrestdanrte1803 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh my God my joy at seeing her still holding her baby please God let her keep it !!✨🎀

  • @1on1withjune81
    @1on1withjune81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What's the difference between the reporters and Mary Ouma they took the baby from the mother but didn't support the mother either counselling or find a job just filming for rating

    • @d.c.347
      @d.c.347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      💯💯💯💯 absolutely spot on analysis,

  • @biglions190
    @biglions190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Woow I am very happy to hear that people have been arrested for these crimes good job Ms Judy

  • @cindythandiwe7433
    @cindythandiwe7433 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I cried while watching this. This is sooo Sad
    what a world we live in

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't act surprised, its normal in a society where everthing and everyone is for sale

    • @sithgasa2063
      @sithgasa2063 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vikitu4793 but surely there are ppl the breath of Africa who are living and eating on the bins in the street with no where to live yet they can cover their children with cardboard boxes and pick from bins of beg rather than through away your child to the rest of us the look crazy but theyir actions resemble a normal human being some we despair without fighting

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sithgasa2063 I hope one day the BBC shows you how those beggars you see are being exploited by a network of well to do people sometimes in government, how they are trafficked into the cities, how they are being assigned streets to work on and quotas of revenues to fill, how they are forcefully sent back to the village if they don't perform well. I don't know what your advice them will be then.
      It may surprise you, but in some of your neighbouring countries, a mother who finds themselves in such predicament, there is a place where she can register and get government allowances to releave the pressure. In individualistic societies like yours, you think they should work harder 🤣🤣🤣
      I know some tribes, again just outside Kenya, that have customs to ensure families with new born babies are well supplied with food. Those tribes are in villages much poorer than your cities, but seem more civilized than you. They seem to understand that a well nourished child is an asset to the society, otherwise they become a more expensive burden for everyone. You cant think that way in a society where everything and everyone is for sale

    • @sithgasa2063
      @sithgasa2063 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vikitu4793 l think you got the wrong end of the stick about my thoughts but surely as young mother myself l think at tumes these woman seem to guve up without trying she hardly kept that child as far as she was concerned selling the child seemed planned before birthsurely there are ppl working with their babies in other ppls households through africa and at times as you say society can help even those poor societies without money she should have not lost hope without trying the fear of unknown at times help was going to be given by a well wisher while not sellling the child . I know that even as poor asl am l would be willing ti help with little l have if l came upon such a woman even with ideas of helping her stand on her feet and not blame society and the stupid man that pregnanted her woman also have a responsibility to look after their children infect l was brought up by a single mother all five of us living hand to mouth at time having a will to do something is greater than having something to give .

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sithgasa2063 I agree, they give up. The society has given up on them, why shouldn't they give up? One will be surprised by how many throw newly born babies into pitlatrines, is that better than selling them? And yes we can blame them all we want, but that won't stop it. What has stoped it in other societies is making sure that new mothers are unlikely to find themselves in such desperate situation.
      I don't blame you at all, and you sound like a nice lady, and I would encourage you to help when you can. But I guarantee you will be overwhelmed 🤣🤣🤣. It should be society responsibility.
      Let me explain how one of neighbouring countries (poorer than Kenya) do it. There are programs to register pregnant mothers throughout the country, every neigbourhood/village leadership is involved, social workers go out there and hunt for unregistered pregnant mothers. There are programs to encourage them to regularly attend clinics, there are social workers to follow up in no-show cases, at one time there was a massive campaign to encourage the fathers to accompany them into these clinic sessions. No legal force is used. Pregnant mothers in desperate situations get identified and assisted. Everyone is tought the importance of giving birth a the clinic, you could hear it on the radios so frequently that it irritates you, but you can see it working. In remote areas, there are registered midwives, oftentime traditional midwives, to extend these services to these areas. You see? In this kind of a society you are unlikely to find a mother that has given up just after giving birth and there is no one who is legaly responsible to help. These services are not charity by some random youtuber who has seen some appalling BBC video. These are services everyone pays for through taxes, services a civilized society tries to provide to its people.
      Why all this effort? It is not about the irresponsible father or the lazy mother and their circumstances. It is about choosing to give all our children the best possible start in life, and not leaving it to chances that the mother might be lazy.
      In such society, illegal clinics as in this video are non existent because they have no demand and no one would tolerate them anyway

  • @djGAMEboi
    @djGAMEboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Idk why they didn't just give her the money directly that they would've paid the nurse for the child, so she could keep her baby and start off a little more stable

    • @pilly1
      @pilly1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly!!

    • @njoy777
      @njoy777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At first, I thought that is what they would be doing. But I think they didn’t make that offer because it is just a short term solution. If you have to feed yourself and the child, the money won’t last long. After that, she needs to make enough money to feed and care for both her and her child. Working with a small baby is much more difficult especially if you don’t have the right support

  • @ChaingaZulu
    @ChaingaZulu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Arrest the buyers, arrest the brokers. Demand always creates doors for supply. The state then needs to offer convincing social protection to people and create safe nets. This has broken my heart.

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you. For once someone does not blame the mother for not trying hard enough.

  • @mandyellis876
    @mandyellis876 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Clanice desperately needed to hear that she did the right thing. The reporter was so empathetic and kind.

    • @NurseSnow2U
      @NurseSnow2U 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I said the same thing, my heart breaks for her. 💔

  • @papillondumonde7887
    @papillondumonde7887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Most of these poor mothers don't even know about the Kenyan adoption system. These mothers should be given adoption as an option. I feel like that would be a stepping stone to curb baby trafficking.

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Really? And you think that level of povery is ok in a country that claims to be the richest in East Africa?

    • @sissyrayself7508
      @sissyrayself7508 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes..someone needs to adopt the mothers themselves. Why do people only want their babies?

    • @papillondumonde7887
      @papillondumonde7887 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vikitu4793 did I say that it's okay?🙄 Kenya is a country where you will find extremely Rich and poor. I blame capitalism.. but educating them about adoption is a step towards the right direction

  • @jadeamorris2697
    @jadeamorris2697 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Truly heart breaking 😣

  • @jkn3042
    @jkn3042 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This really is unacceptable. This has to stop.

  • @lovelygee4405
    @lovelygee4405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    God bless African mothers that are poor and have no food to eat but manage to take care of their children no matter what without selling them, sacrificing their life for their children to become someone better in life

  • @chrisouko1862
    @chrisouko1862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I hear a lot of judgment for women who give up their children. Having to give up a child isn't as easy as it may sound. And for a woman to reach that point it means they are on the verge of breaking. We live in a country where mothers would rather sell their children to peddlers to get a few thousand bob to help them figure out the near future than go through the legal adoption system that offers no support whatsoever. I sat here watching Clenice go through the legal system and all the officer asked was, "why are you giving up the baby?" She answers and the officer nods. Next thing we see is her walking out of the center casually and back to her village. No follow up or any help was offered to her. I mean, the poor lady is traumatized by the ordeal so much that she is having nightmares, yet she doesn't receive as much as a therapy session to help her deal with the loss of her baby. So then, how is the legal adoption system any better than selling your child and hoping they get a loving family? At least with the latter option these women get some money they can use to figure out the way forward. I'm not condoning the sell of children, hell no. I'm only saying to fix the broken legal system first.

    • @Beautybizz28
      @Beautybizz28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How about don't get pregnant!!!

  • @msr9449
    @msr9449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Did she really say "Can you give me a discount" ? What type of shit is that. A discount on a child. Come on, this is sick. God sees everything. I really hope this woman get what's coming to her. 🙏🙏🙏

    • @rebeccabear3508
      @rebeccabear3508 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That’s the reporter saying that. She has to seem willing to purchase, and not shady by willing to pay any price. The bargaining culture is a part of many cultures, and was done to not alert the woman something was off

  • @TuneinR
    @TuneinR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Side effects of poverty....nothing else.Those buying and selling are heartless.You can erase the name but u cannot erase the DNA.

    • @KAIZORIANEMPIRE
      @KAIZORIANEMPIRE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The women selling these babies could have gone and sold her body for the same price.. why sell your child? " this is forever, and selling her body is only for a time". It means she prefers her own body over her childs. Which is fine, it's choice but these aren't victims. These are just people making a choice.

  • @charmaineforrestdanrte1803
    @charmaineforrestdanrte1803 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are cared for in the home but it is still so God awful sad I mean the child knows it is without parent😔😔 so many of the same age in one house God bless those women !!!🎀✨

  • @nicolesinclair7633
    @nicolesinclair7633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Stolen baby syndrome, the children have no idea where they come from and are many times abused as a result of this action it's so terrible for the children and the families that love them. It scars

  • @rachaelb2729
    @rachaelb2729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can somebody set up a mental health charity for these women! It's clear in the mothers eyes that she was going through depression and needed help.

  • @winnyosborne2987
    @winnyosborne2987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watching this just pains my heart so much.

  • @keziahnkb
    @keziahnkb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What the children's home in case one wants to make some donations there?

  • @CaseyWiggin
    @CaseyWiggin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am from Africa and this goes on daily! So sad

  • @Earthbound369
    @Earthbound369 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just when I start feeling sorry for myself & my finances, I see what the true horror of poverty is.
    My question is, what happens to the sold babies?

    • @marystar6021
      @marystar6021 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sancho -
      Some babies are bought by those
      that can not adopt through the
      legal process for one reason or another.
      Then there are babies sold for
      reasons too dark and horrific to get
      into 😢.

    • @Earthbound369
      @Earthbound369 ปีที่แล้ว

      OMG. Just what I feared.

  • @makazihomes1580
    @makazihomes1580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is reality, and a very painful one indeed. Good job on this expose! Question is, how many other baby shops are running their businesses unnoticed? How can this vulnerable women be helped? I feel more has to be done to ensure that women don't have to result to selling their child. Free family planning and education and also proper structures to provide care and financial assistance to this women and a system for adoption that is open and available for any woman who decides not to keep their child.

  • @missocean4572
    @missocean4572 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can’t imagine that level of poverty 💔

  • @nyaugenyaful
    @nyaugenyaful 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There is need to offer real options. Which is better 1. Abort the baby or 2. Give away the baby........... Moral dilemma is in the 'buying' of babies. Can we have genuine adoption. agencies? Can we do real foster homes?

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Poverty is the problem that need addressing. They also want raise babies like you too.

  • @verahalim19
    @verahalim19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you very much you are doing a good job

  • @TeeTee-bx8bk
    @TeeTee-bx8bk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    30 euros 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Dear Lord I'm so sad... The poverty levels 😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪😪 yet people walk in and out of hermés shops DAILY to buy 3Million Dollar bags! Such a huge Margin - The 1%. We fkd up somewhere in This Lifetime y'all..😪😪😪😪

  • @princeofosun7451
    @princeofosun7451 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This happened to me 30 years ago some place in kiambu....To my adopted mom I curse you to my real mom who was told i died and i was sold by force to a woman who could not give birth even her husband left..nkt..fck society

  • @who_is_tendo2644
    @who_is_tendo2644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    giving up a child or aborting it is no childs play...its not as easy as it sounds...

    • @shizma7917
      @shizma7917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haki I would rather abort than selling. Really how can I live with that, my baby ana suffer somewhere na vile this world is evil.

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shizma7917 You would rather kill your baby than sell? 🤣🤣🤣

    • @shizma7917
      @shizma7917 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vikitu4793 yeah I would rather I swear look at those women they look so heartless if both are huge mistakes I pick Abortion!!!. But b4 that I will take some "measures" so that I do not get paged to begin with.😊😊

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@shizma7917 Naelewa. Creating a life was supposed to be such a blessing, nowadays its getting too complicated for our women. I really pray you don't find yourself facing such unfortunate choices.

    • @Beautybizz28
      @Beautybizz28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@shizma7917 Id rather abort to what if these children are being sold into the sex trade? This world is to crazy to give a child to someone without a proper adoption agency arranging a respectable family to adopt my child.

  • @nosandilegasela1437
    @nosandilegasela1437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My lord..This is beyond sad 😔

  • @eunicewairimu5015
    @eunicewairimu5015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I hope that girl will go for her baby after 6mths 😭😭

  • @Sydhititfc
    @Sydhititfc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I wonder if the baby boy from last time is ok.

    • @slowclimbertothetop4572
      @slowclimbertothetop4572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That boy is still in my mind!

    • @olavert1426
      @olavert1426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think about that precious little one every day. Since he was obviously not returned to his mother, I’d like to think that he went to a childless couple who will actually love him. I can’t stomach that other option.

    • @daimavlog
      @daimavlog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too

    • @janetwangui9881
      @janetwangui9881 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't know why i think the policeman was in on it. I think he was used to warn Anita about being filmed. That was too much of a coincidence. I pray for that child and mother that one day Justice will be served.

    • @olavert1426
      @olavert1426 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@janetwangui9881 Oh the policeman was definitely in on it. As far as I’m concerned he needs to be under the jail right along with Anita.

  • @D_4587
    @D_4587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    🤔🤔okay mary auma is doing business earning those all amount of many yet look at her she is not even glowing anakaa to kama mimi hapa surly enyewe crime si poa na uwezi glow na pesa za uwizi walai

  • @mariamakoroma4449
    @mariamakoroma4449 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So beautiful

  • @janiceimnochefgetmeoutofhe4418
    @janiceimnochefgetmeoutofhe4418 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That heartless woman needs to be in prison. Inducing her labor and waiting like a hawk

  • @maryannecomment3302
    @maryannecomment3302 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This heartbreaking for the mother. She will always feel the pain of the separation. I am happy that there alternatives and the mother does not have to sell her child, but can give it to a home, where the baby can be taken care off.

  • @marcus8430
    @marcus8430 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So so sad to sell out your baby, after nine years carrying the womb

  • @benitamaiorano3970
    @benitamaiorano3970 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s so sad what’s happening to these young ladies. Hopefully the babies will be given to the safe home. God Bless the mums & babies

    • @sissyrayself7508
      @sissyrayself7508 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We sgould be adopting the mothers as well as the child.

  • @aminajoseph1409
    @aminajoseph1409 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is so painful for a woman to carry a child for 9 months then the D-day LABOUR pains lost of blood and energy only to sell the child for just 3000 shillings I converted it to Naira which is what we spend in my country it gave me 10,000 Naira plus some fractions on top, the money is not even up-to 10,500 ah! 😢 the people that buys these children are heartless even dog 🐶 in my country can't be sold for that amount not to talk of a child what a life!! 🙆‍♂😭😭

  • @nyachiosteve
    @nyachiosteve 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Devastating, they are always blessings

  • @doreenviolet6529
    @doreenviolet6529 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is awful and I pray they find a better solution than asking their babies. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @TN-qs3ck
    @TN-qs3ck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Look at that heartless woman

  • @rowannaendose9178
    @rowannaendose9178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm so thankful to be from the Pacific islands. We take care of our own. No mothers life is too hard that she ever has to sell their child.

    • @pennykay6368
      @pennykay6368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's how it has always been in Africa. Things change.

    • @sharonthebaron88
      @sharonthebaron88 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah just google Pacific Island adoptions. Women there give up babies too.

  • @jadiquaify
    @jadiquaify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Ok y’all expose them ,call the police

  • @DrSaddamkenya
    @DrSaddamkenya 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Corruption corruption corruption is ruining our country

  • @mariaruru6123
    @mariaruru6123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God have mercy why is life too unfair innocent souls I feel every mother watching this I know every pain of a mother

  • @estherwagitahi2821
    @estherwagitahi2821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My tears 😢😭😭😭😭

  • @zippiekeyshia9321
    @zippiekeyshia9321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My heart aches for these women.. It's the hardest thing to do and I wish nothing but the best for them.. There are safer options

  • @carisowealthy
    @carisowealthy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wish you the best protect children

  • @kevohwapipelinetransami4351
    @kevohwapipelinetransami4351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    *The third to comment here premier gang👊👊according to how the title is sounding and the background itself this must be covered in my country Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🤣🤣 Kenya is all behind the scenes 🕺🕺*

  • @charmaineforrestdanrte1803
    @charmaineforrestdanrte1803 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And those Precious Precious.. Children !!✨✨✨🎀

  • @niwemugenimediatrice5640
    @niwemugenimediatrice5640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I got seriously sick watching this😴

  • @adulthumanfemale8666
    @adulthumanfemale8666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Give these women the pill. For goodness sake!

    • @kerzenlicht7709
      @kerzenlicht7709 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sterilization would be even better.

  • @kelvinandati7887
    @kelvinandati7887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And she speaks in Luhya,can't believe we can do this😳😳

  • @hotshotdesigner
    @hotshotdesigner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    this are times when i am ashamed of being a Kenyan

    • @vikitu4793
      @vikitu4793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That happens when the who society is busy with which tribe gets the top most job, and forgets what that top most job is for

    • @hotshotdesigner
      @hotshotdesigner 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vikitu4793 i agree

  • @catejoe3489
    @catejoe3489 ปีที่แล้ว

    I became amum at 17 my son is 14 now ifaced alot of rejection, humiliation, hatred from my family but now ithank God ihave ajob and God is faithful

  • @charmaineforrestdanrte1803
    @charmaineforrestdanrte1803 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She put the child's safety before money in her pocket she is already a great mother😥 I sensed her unease back at the baby selling clinic and I understand now she was afraid for her baby,, she can at least,, rest easy now,,😊✨🎀

  • @n_kogi
    @n_kogi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Infuriating!!!!

  • @nonoechibs2775
    @nonoechibs2775 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Uuuuuuh so heartbreaking

  • @CameliaKay9804
    @CameliaKay9804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So sad 😞

  • @unwind1183
    @unwind1183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s such a heart warming thing. But a beautiful ending. The baby is safe and will be taking care of. And not with the devils.

  • @lisamutange1337
    @lisamutange1337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is so heartbreaking I wish the government could take such things seriously 😢

  • @mbuguagatungo6337
    @mbuguagatungo6337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Na bado wakenya tuna ambiwa BBI , this kind of businesses is without doubt hard to do without major government officials as the presenter says...

  • @kuselwa6715
    @kuselwa6715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Do they have access to birth control in Kenya /Nairobi? This is heartbreaking, can't help but wonder where the kids end up? May God's Kingdom come soon, that's the only solution to humankind's problems.

    • @prisillakimani3590
      @prisillakimani3590 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I find this a very insulting question!Its accessible esp in town areas like any other capital city in the world.
      There are contraceptive here and are free in government clinics.
      Reason why it’s not commonly used it because of people s beliefs and cultural practices.It’s free and most of them don’t take it up....

    • @kuselwa6715
      @kuselwa6715 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@prisillakimani3590 okay

  • @MakeItHappenKE
    @MakeItHappenKE 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    @BBC Africa what is the name of the children's home at the end for those of us who want to support and can we share more around the country? Thank you

  • @Flower-ck2bs
    @Flower-ck2bs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Terrible. How can humans do something like this...It is unhuman to make a business of selling children. Young women who do it live in economical poverty that we can not imagine. The prise is a pain in ones heart for ever...