Undercover Asia: The women selling their unwanted pandemic babies in the Philippines
Buying a baby in the Philippines is as easy as putting up a Facebook post. Within a week, the Undercover Asia team received responses from ‘BMOMs’ or birth mothers asking for ‘adoption fees’ as low as US$100. Some middlemen even have lists of babies on sale, with an average price of about US$200 per baby.
Undercover Asia: The women selling their unwanted pandemic babies in the Philippines
Buying a baby in the Philippines is as easy as putting up a Facebook post. Within a week, the Undercover Asia team received responses from ‘BMOMs’ or birth mothers asking for ‘adoption fees’ as low as US$100. Some middlemen even have lists of babies on sale, with an average price of about US$200 per baby.
Undercover Asia
CNA's award-winning investigative series Undercover Asia returns with a new season to uncover the hard truths in the underbelly of Asia, and help us understand the plight of the disenfranchised and the displaced.