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Suspect tells investigators, Paula Nicole Palacios Narváez, was sold to organ traffickers. Bruce Stanfield

Authorities in Colombia are looking for a six-year-old girl named, Paula Nicole Palacios Narvaez, who was abducted last year around December in the town of Buesaco, and is feared to have been sold to organ traffickers. According to El Tiempo, "José Germán Paguatian Insandara, one of the four suspects captured by the disappearance of the child confessed to the prosecutor that the girl was sold to a band of 'child traffickers.'"

Insandara added that a woman identified as Blanca Lopez Digna, who was recently was captured by the police, contacted him by telephone to participate in the abduction of the minor. "It's painful, but what he said confirms the feeling that we had, that something could have happened to the girl. Because otherwise she would've had already appeared," Carlos Martínez, Paula Nicole's uncle said.

According to the World Health Organization, "there are no reliable data on organ trafficking — or indeed transplantation activity in general — but it is widely believed to be on the increase, with brokers reportedly charging between US$ 100,000 and US$ 200,000 to organize a transplant for wealthy patients." The police are continuing the search for the missing girl.

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Paula Nicole Palacios Narvaez was kidnapped as she came out of school on Dec. 28, 2014. Source

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