Children ‘disappeared’ from hospitals in Haiti: UN

GENEVA - Some 15 children have “disappeared” from hospitals in Haiti since a devastating earthquake struck the country last week, a United Nations spokesman said.

According to Jean Luc Legrand, with Unicef, the UN’s Children Fund, approximately 15 children had been taken out of hospitals “and not with their families.”

Speaking with reporters in Geneva, he said the information was based on “anecdotal evidence.”

Contacted by DPA for further information, UNICEF’s office in Geneva was unable to comment.

The Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights said “enslavement of children and trafficking was also an existing problem and could easily emerge as a serious issue over the coming weeks and months.”