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An Unwelcome First for the U.K.

Over at the American Conservative, Helen Andrews writes about the first organ-trafficking case in the United Kingdom. It may not be the last:

The only surprising thing about the arrest of Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu for organ trafficking last week was that it took place in London. Ekweremadu, a Nigerian senator first elected in 2003, has been charged with bringing a 15-year-old boy from Lagos into Britain with the intention of harvesting his kidney for transplant.

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