Eight held in child trafficking probe

(ANSA) - Messina, February 26 - Eight people were detained on Thursday on suspicion of criminal association for the purposes of reduction into slavery involving an eight-year old boy from Romania.
    The suspects - six Italians and two Romanians - included a couple from the Sicilian city of Messina who allegedly paid a presumed local criminal organisation 30,000 euros for the boy instead of following normal adoption procedures.
    Police made their sweep as the couple was handing over the money in exchange for the boy.