Fraud and deceit at the heart of Uganda adoptions to United States

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LONDON/KAMPALA, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ugandan families have been bribed, tricked or coerced into giving up their children to U.S. citizens and other foreigners for adoption, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found. Leaked documents, court data and a series of exclusive interviews with officials, whistleblowers, victims and prospective adoptive parents has revealed: – a culture of corruption in which …

HSE knew of “quasi-illegal deportation and adoption” of children to the USA, Britain, and Australia.

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The revelation is contained in a business plan prepared by principal social worker in the South Lee region, Pat O’Dwyer, in 2011 in preparation for the HSE’s takeover of about 15,500 adoption files from the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Order which ran the Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey, and Castlepollard Mother and Baby Homes. Mr O’Dwyer …

A Letter From A REAL Ethiopian Mother

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Ethiopia, Stop Adoption Trafficking!  Urgent and Extremely Important, Please Read and Listen! All Ethiopians and all who care for the welfare, protection, safety and growth of children in their own community, with their own identity, culture, heredity and nationality, please be the voice for the voiceless Ethiopian children who have become victims of child trafficking and victims of adoption agencies …

Fatima looking for her daughter. Against Child Trafficking

Gift of Hope

Adoptionland NewsAdoption, Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Excerpts, Indigenous Communities, Long Lost Family

No parent should ever have their child stolen to meet the intercountry-adoption market demand. Through our Family Reunification Program, you can help bring together parents with their taken children. In most cases, the children are adults by the time they have learned the truth about their origin. Gift of Hope supports the most vulnerable families targeted by adoption traffickers. Your …

Adoption: Is it about the Money?

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Child ‘protection’ is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it. A recent CDC study, The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in the United States and Implications for Prevention, found the total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of cases associated with child protection services is approximately $124 billion. [1] …