Inthis Southeast Asian nation, where legal adoption can take years, people are handing over thousands of dollars to baby sellers and turning to corrupt officials to help register the children they buy as their own.
The babies offered for sale come from a variety of women. Some are poor migrant workers who, by law, are not allowed to have children in the country. Others come from Malaysian women, including some who are forced to give up their babies to avoid the stigma associated with having a child out of wedlock.
The buyers are often childless couples desperate to start a family and frustrated with the country's convoluted adoption procedures. But activists say some babies are bought for more sinister purposes, sometimes by syndicates who groom children for paedophiles.
Websites and social media pages offer numerous babies who are "in need of a loving home". The posts detail the baby's due date, expected medical costs and the so-called "consolation fee" to be paid to the birth mother.
When Siti discovered that she was pregnant, she was a young, unmarried university student. In this Muslim-majority country, having a child out of wedlock is not just frowned upon; it's a Shariah offence for a Muslim woman to have sex with a man who is not her husband. The punishment is up to three years in prison, whipping and a fine of up to 5,000 ringgit (about $1,155).
Speaking on the condition that Al Jazeera not disclose her real name, Siti said that she desperately wanted to keep her baby boy but staff at the home forced her to sign adoption papers four days after he was born.
The home for unwed mothers was closed down by the government's Social Welfare Department in 2012, shortly after Siti says her baby was taken. The centre was found to be unlicensed but it wasn't charged with baby selling.
The woman said she had been working in Kuala Lumpur, but her work visa had expired. Migrant workers are not allowed to bear children in Malaysia, and her child would be stateless if born in the country.
Aegile Fernandez, the group's programme director, explained that previously, sex workers who got pregnant would have abortions, but now some are deliberately getting pregnant. In some cases, they may be forced to by their traffickers.
But the fight to secure Zara's future is not over. She did not have a birth certificate when Hartini bought her. The traffickers offered Hartini the chance to buy a falsified birth certificate but she refused.
She was eventually able to get her a birth certificate, but Zara remains stateless as Hartini fights a long-running legal battle to have her declared a Malaysian citizen. In the meantime, Zara cannot access public education or healthcare or get a passport. If it isn't resolved by the time she grows up, she will also be unable to marry.
Zara knows that she is adopted but has no idea that her adoptive mother bought her from a baby trafficker. Hartini knows the day will come when she'll have to explain to Zara how she became her daughter.
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