Mexican authorities probing an alleged child-trafficking ring which aimed to pass on babies to Irish couples for adoption have detained six women and taken 10 children into custody.

The six suspects and children, aged between two months and two years, were held in the past week in western Mexico, said a spokesman for the attorney general’s office in Guadalajara city, Jalisco state, on Tuesday, January 17, 2012. “Three people were provisionally detained on Friday and three others were taken in on Monday,” Lino Gonzalez told AFP.