By Sheila Flynn and Gerard Couzens UPDATED: 20:19 EST, 14 January 2012 Seven Mexican babies have been seized from Irish couples after ­police in Guadalajara smashed an international child-­smuggling ring. Officials said the couples believed they were following proper adoption channels but that the babies were actually being sold by their mothers. Up to 11 Irish families were being questioned this weekend in connection with the scam, centred in the Guadalajara region of central Mexico, where four local women have been arrested. On display: The three Mexican women held this week over the allegations The Irish couples, all of whom remained unnamed yesterday, were shocked and heartbroken to be told of the scam and to have to return the infants.
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Mother, 21, tried to sell baby for one thousand euros
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Seven Mexican babies have been seized from Irish couples after ­police in Guadalajara smashed an international child-­smuggling ring
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Officials said the couples believed they were following proper adoption channels but that the babies were actually being sold by their mothers
‘I know there’s one couple here at the minute who said they were given the all-clear to adopt – and then when they got to @placeholder, the first email they opened was: “Don’t go to Mexico any more; it’s closed to adoptions.”’