Heartbreaking moment Chinese adoptive father hugs his daughter as he hands her back to her biological parents after discovering she had been kidnapped from them six years ago

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After adopting a young girl years ago, a couple from north-west China’s Urumqi city had to do the unimaginable when they discovered she was a child trafficking victim. They gave their adopted daughter back to her biological parents on February 2 after finding out they had been searching for her for a number of years, reports Huanqiu.com, an affiliation of …

Legal Kidnapping

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Chris Reynolds is fighting to get his daughter back after he says she was adopted without his knowledge or permission. INDEPENDENCE, MO (KCTV) –A father is fighting to get his daughter back after he says she was adopted without his knowledge or permission. Chris Reynolds hasn’t seen his 3-year-old daughter, Brooke, in more than a year. He and his other children write …

Living with Dead Hearts: Chinese Missing Kids

CHINA: Illustrates Tragedy of Child Abductions

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In a country where many families are allowed only one child, the notion that one’s son or daughter could be abducted and sold feels almost impossibly horrible. And yet, as a new documentary makes clear, it happens in China with stunning frequency. “Most foreigners don’t know this is happening at all,” says Charlie Custer, a blogger who co-produced and directed …

Mom: “I screamed and cried and watched them take my child away”

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MOBILE, AL (WALA) – Kimberly Rossler says the most traumatizing experience of her life happened less than a month after she delivered her baby. Rossler gave birth to James Elliot Rossler in May, but three weeks later, she said Sheriff’s deputies were knocking on her door to take the baby from her. “They let me finish breastfeeding him, and I put him in …

ADOPTION ATTORNEYS DEFEATED IN ATTEMPT TO REVOKE ICWA

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Native American families experienced a major legal victory this week, as a federal court judge threw out a case that attempted to argue ICWA violated the civil rights of Indian parents. United States District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee dismissed the lawsuit, initially filed by the National Council For Adoption Attorneys, which sought to decimate the Department of Justice’s recent release …