Monday, June 21, 2010

Buy a Baby for $150 in Nigeria

(article from UK paper)
The ease with which illegal immigrants
can enter the country was highlighted
yesterday when a baby trafficker banned
from the UK for ten years sneaked back
in to claim thousands at an employment
tribunal.
Peace Sandberg, 42, was jailed for 26
months in 2008 after she bought a three-
month-old baby in Nigeria for £150 and
tried to pass it off as her own to get a
council (section 8 housing in USA) house.
After she had served her sentence she
was deported to Sweden where she
holds joint Swedish/Nigerian citizenship,
and was ordered not to return to Britain
for ten years.
Defying the ban, Sandberg, a former
housing officer who worked with the
elderly in Ealing, London, flew back to the
country and walked straight through
immigration checks at Heathrow Airport.
She returned to Britain to sue her former
employers, the Peabody Trust for race
and sex discrimination. The employment tribunal allowed the
case to proceed knowing she was in the
country illegally.
Mrs Sandberg was caught eventually
after the lawyer representing the trust
raised alarms.

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