JCICS Conference call: Adoptions gone TOXIC

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Presenting themselves as an advocacy group for children, the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS)  is nothing less than the voice of the adoption industry. In view of transparency, Against Child Trafficking hereby make this audio, as well as the full transcript, public:  A letter from a REAL Ethiopian Mother:  Ethiopia, Stop Adoption Trafficking!  Urgent and Extremely Important, Please …

Rehoming: Dan Rather Reports

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“Rehoming” is an underground system that enables adoptive parents to advertise their adopted children on the internet or through informal religious or civic connections to place them with other willing families without legal safeguards or regulations. To many human rights proponents, this underground method of moving children is seen as another form of abandonment and child trafficking. Adoption: What You …

Out of 30 adopted Ethiopians, 9 of them are homeless in Seattle

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Adopted from Ethiopia, Hana found dead in her back yard, bruises on her body where she was beaten and her adoptive parents starved her to death.  Adoption Advocates International (AAI) based in Seattle is closed now.  Many of the adoptions from AAI the Ethiopian children are homeless.  Unfortunately when their is no supervision or regulations after the children are placed, …

Serbia: Missing Babies

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Instances of newborns disappearing in Serbian hospitals have been reported for decades. But only in recent times has the government come under pressure to take action. Hundreds of parents say they were told by doctors that their babies died shortly after birth. But they were never allowed to see the body. An association representing the parents says between 6,000 and …

Your baby is dead: Mothers say their supposedly stillborn babies were stolen from them

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This is how the woman, then young, remembered the August day in 1963 on which she gave birth to her illegitimate daughter: She was in an Edmonton hospital; the doctor ordered she receive an injection. She blacked out, and when she started to come to, a male voice said: “knock her out.” She claimed she woke up sometime later and …