Cops find 23 abducted children aged between three months and 15 inside house while hunting for snatched toddler
A HUNT for a missing toddler has led police to discover 23 children abducted by a human trafficking gang.
The children were rescued by the police in the municipality of San Cristobal de las Casas in the Mexican state of Chiapas and three women were arrested.
The shock discovery only came during a frantic search for a two-year-old indigenous boy who went missing from a marketplace at the end of June, according to the state attorney general’s office.
Prosecutor Jorge Llaven Abarca said that 23 minors, including three breastfeeding infants and three toddlers aged between 12 and 20 months, were found.
The rest of the children were aged between two and 15 years.
Officers were looking for Dylan Esau Gomez Perez, a two-year-old boy who was reported as missing on 30th June from a market where his mum had a stall.
But the missing toddler was not among the 23 children found.
The attorney general’s office said that the rescued children showed signs of physical and psychological violence.
They had been forced to sell homemade crafts aimed at tourists in the city centre of San Cristobal.
Three women, identified as Maribel, Maria Hortensia and Juana, have been arrested while the young victims were taken into care by the Mexico local authorities.
The investigation into the suspected human trafficking ring continues.
The police have also not given up on their search for little Dylan Esau.
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