Recognizing the practice of baby-trafficking as a troubling trend in her country, Veronika Dimitrova, a journalist for the Bulgarian news program Nova started looking around online for prospective clients for an undercover report. She stumbled upon a message from a London couple who claimed to be unable to have their own, and were in the market to purchase a baby. Dimitrova made arrangements for the couple, Jonathan Calvert and Heidi Blake, to fly to Bulgaria, where she “planned” to negotiate the sale, all with the intentions of filming them as part of her report.
Chilling stuff right there. There was just one problem – the couple on the other end of the deal had the very same idea. It turns out that Calvert and Blake were actually undercover journalists themselves, working for the Sunday Times in London.
Both sides eventually confessed, and towards the end of the clip from Nova, an email from Blake is shown saying saying: “We are very amused by this – it hasn’t ever happened to us before!
There probably aren’t many light-hearted moments in the world of human trafficking, but this is about as close as it gets. Watch Nova’s report on the story below:
Reporters Set Up Baby Trafficking Sting, Get Stung by Other Reporters
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