The director of the children and teenager protection department of the Attorney General’s office, Elisa Sanchez denounced the use of Haitian children by gangs to introduce drugs and guns across the frontier. She said the number of Haitian children arrested in the frontier area for this crime is increasing at alarming rates. She said the children are deported in the morning, and return in the afternoon. Other news reports have denounced the use of Dominican minors for the same purposes. Children protection laws make children ideal to assist drug and weapon dealers. Sanchez also denounced the continued practice of renting Haitian children to employ them as beggars in city streets.
