Not to punish the sale of children in case of “need” and provided that it is not “a habitual activity.” This is the scandalous proposal of a senator from Javier Milei’s party In Argentina, Juan Carlos Pagotto, who intended to open the door to legalize the sale of poor minorssowing controversy in a country that remains dismayed by the search for Loan, the missing five-year-old boy for more than three weeks now.

In the midst of this case, and while the Upper House was debating the penalties for trafficking, Pagotto tried to sneak this proposal in to legalize itraising “a caveat” that “the parents are exempt or have an exculpatory excuse as long as that does not constitute a habitual activity“. He did so arguing that there are families “who They have eight or nine children, have they ever ‘given’ to a boy? And if we punish them, we leave the rest of the family unprotected.”

Thus, he proposed that the penalty be “from four to 10 years for anyone who receives or delivers a minor for a price, promise of payment or any other type of compensation” the parent is exempt to give up his son “when there is a state of necessity”. That is to say: legalize the sale of poor children.

This senator’s proposal comes precisely when Argentina is following with concern the search for Loan, a case in which there are already Seven arrested, including a policeman and two uncles of the little boy, who was last seen on June 13 at a family meal. Since then, there have been more than three weeks of tireless searching and demonstrations calling for his return, but the days go by and the only thing that appears are new suspects, while No hypothesis is ruled out, including the sale of the little one.

Something usual, according to Senator Pagotto, who stated in the chamber that “In this country children are soldnot only for trafficking, but for adoption purposes, a lot of assumptions, even trade in organs“.

What he proposed in the Senate is not an isolated idea, but rather the same Milei He already opened the door in this regard before being president, when he proposed that “adoptions were a free market and not a market regulated by the State.” “You will see how those who become pregnanteven when they don’t want to, They will find a way out“, the Argentine president said then.

According to Unicef, Seven out of 10 Argentine minors are poor and two million live in extreme poverty, which has continued to grow since the ultra-right leader came to power.