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By Hannah Tooley A pair of nuns in Spain are under investigation over allegations of stealing 13 babies whose mothers gave them up for adoption. Sister Carmen Longatela Latas, 82, and Sister Carmen Vazquez Lamela, 88, have been indicted by a court on suspicion of tricking or forging mothers to give up their children. The nuns deny the accusations. According …
By, Changiz M. Varzi Nearly 10,000 adoptees have been given to foreign parents since the 1960s but many face huge obstacles discovering their origins. BEIRUT – It was a life-changing day in September 1963, when a young American woman entered Beirut’s St Vincent de Paul orphanage and was shown to a row of children in their beds. Back in the US, …
By Frank Fang | March 6, 2016. Even as a child Song Yangzhi somehow felt that he was adopted, even though his parents never told him directly. When he was little, he could recite two poems that his parents never taught him, and other kids called him “orphan boy.” It turns out that Song’s instincts were right: he was kidnapped …
SYRACUSE, NY – Forty-eight boxes on wooden pallets take up a space 15 yards long and six yards wide in the basement of lawyer Robert Lahm’s office building in Syracuse. Inside them are about 1,000 files carrying information about Central New Yorkers who were adopted over the past 20 years – their medical histories, their adoptive parents’ finances, and in …
Eleven Irish couples caught up in an alleged adoption scam in Mexico have been left devastated by the affair, they said tonight. While the lawyer at the centre of the baby trafficking plot remains on the run, the families who returned home last weekend have insisted they believed they were acting legally. Offices belonging to the Lopez Y Lopez firm …
