Begging: The children with a handicap are more vulnerable in a situation where trafficking is for the purpose of begging. Poverty and handicap is the ideal combination for the children to be trafficked in the belief that the handicap will induce sympathy in the giver. That belief puts the child beggar at serious risk of being deliberately maimed in order to increase his or her earning potential. Street children, who are easily available to be picked up, are another vulnerable category.
Organ Trading: newspaper reports and anecdotal reports from persons working on trafficking issues clearly indicate that trafficking of children for organ replacements for persons who can afford to buy them is a "lucrative business" for the traffickers.
Drug peddling and smuggling: Children are trafficked and made involved in drug peddling (illegal selling) and smuggling. Use of children for drug peddling is common because it is assumed that they would be suspected the least. Children are initiated into drugs and then used as conduits for peddling.
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