Human trafficking ring busted

A human trafficking ring that is said to have used Haitian children as beggars on the streets of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, have been dismantled.



According to the Dominican director of immigration Sigfrido Pared ten suspected ringleaders, illegal migrants from Haiti have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking.



The authorities also say 44 children were rescued from a building in a poor suburb west of Santo Domingo.



Pared says the migrants were sent out each morning to busy intersections to beg for money, wash windshields or do other menial tasks.



At the end of the day they were rounded up, and whatever they made was taken from them.



Officials say that in most cases of children being caught up in human trafficking rings, their parents give them up in exchange for money.