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Police look for child traffickers
By N. Dilshath Banu
Police have been deployed to the tsunami affected areas to look out for child traffickers amidst reports that as many as 60 children were being illegally held by various persons.

There had been complaints about more than 100 missing children, but only about 40 of them were traced, police said. Some of the children earlier listed as missing were found to be dead.

Meanwhile SI Manoj Samarasekara of the Women and Children's Bureau said if children were kept without any legal assent, it would be considered as child trafficking which is a punishable offence. “We plan to announce to the people to release these children if they have naively taken them for adoption. Anyone who has kept such missing children should go to the nearest police station or child care probation centre and report it."

National Child Protection Authority Chairman Harendra de Silva said a data base of missing children was being maintained by the Authority and people who wanted information could obtain information from it.
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