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 …

Christian World Adoption (CWA)

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2009 special report on Ethiopian child adoption agencies and how they exploit Ethiopian children and families. “This is Tegene, he’s a little abandoned child,”  says the presenter on Christian World Adoption’s DVD catalogue of orphans. On the other side of the world, Lisa Boe fell in love. She adopted Tegene, who one day identified his real ‘mom’ in a photograph. …

‘Child trafficking with help of State’

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Victim of illegal adoption affair wants to go to court By Esther Wemmers Amsterdam – A victim of the major illegal adoption affair of the eighties wants to sue the Dutch State for co-responsibility of child trafficking and allowing couples to change the identity of their illegally adopted children.  Childless Dutch couples avoided the long waiting lists for adoption by …