Baghdad court jails father, three women for human trafficking
BAGHDAD – The Rusafa Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced four people, including a father and three women, to 10 years in prison for human trafficking after the man sold his five-year-old daughter for 8 million dinars ($5,579).
The judiciary’s media office said the transaction was carried out in Baghdad with the assistance of the three women.
The court issued the ruling under Article 6 of Iraq’s Anti-Human Trafficking Law No. 28 of 2012 and Articles 47, 48, 49, and 132/2 of the Penal Code.
Similar cases have recently surfaced. Earlier this month, the Karkh Criminal Court sentenced two women to seven years in prison for human trafficking, including a mother who sold her daughter for 20 million dinars ($14,020) in Baghdad.
On Sept. 2, the National Security Service said it arrested three women in Diwaniyah accused of trafficking newborns, including an unlicensed midwife accused of selling infants.
In February, a Baghdad man was sentenced to 10 years for selling his infant son after advertising him on social media, while in December 2024, police in Adhamiya said they arrested a man and a woman for allegedly selling two children for 4 million dinars ($2,638).