The International Adoptions Lobby: an insider’s perspective

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A review by Rupert Wolfe-Murray Romania – for export only, the untold story of the Romanian ‘orphans’ by Roelie Post There are several unusual things about Roelie Post and her important new book on international adoptions. An employee of the European Commission, between 1999 and 2005 Post handled one of its most controversial dossiers: Romania’s institutionalised children. She is one …

Kenya – Babies for Sale

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Many cases of missing children, some barely a few days old, are reported in Kenya. While some eventually end up as cases of kidnapping by ransom seekers, many children are literally sold to buyers seeking a shorter route to child adoption or to traffickers eyeing international child markets. Citizen’s TV Michael Njenga went undercover to unmask the faces behind the criminal …

Owner of Utah County adoption agency arrested

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(KUTV) James Charles Webb, owner of the Adoption Center of Center, or ACC, in American Fork, was arrested on Friday, charged with taking $100,400 in payments from four families who expected he would help them adopt babies. The families never adopted the babies but Webb kept the money, according to court documents. Webb was also charge with four counts of …

Not What It Seems: Going Deeper into Ugandan Orphanages

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Orphanages are big businesses. Follow us: @adoptiontraffic /  Adoptionland.org – FB https://adoptionland.org/p/2276/your-baby-is-dead-mothers-say-their-supposedly-stillborn-babies-were-stolen-from-them/ For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org