Mexico adoption-for-cash scheme took babies from poor mothers

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By Mark Stevenson | The Associated Press | Aug. 2015. MEXICO CITY – A child welfare official in northern Mexico took at least nine babies from poor or drug-addicted mothers and offered them to adoptive parents in exchange for payments ranging from $5,000 to $9,000, authorities said Friday. Raul Ramirez, the head of the government human rights commission in the …

“I do buy babies for N1 million and sell them in USA,” a 60 year-old woman confesses.

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A 60-year-old grandmother, Asabi Adebayo, has told the Oyo State Police Command that she had a thriving baby trafficking ring where she allegedly bought five babies for the whopping sum of N5 million, at N1 million per baby, with the sole purpose of taking the babies to the United State of America, for sale. Adebayo who added that she had …

Couples devastated by adoption scam

Adoptionland NewsAdoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Excerpts, Rights

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 …

Adopting a Child in Islam

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Islamic legal rulings about foster parenting and adoption By Huda The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said that a person who cares for an orphaned child will be in Paradise with him, and motioned to show that they would be as close as two fingers of a single hand.  An orphan himself, Muhammad paid special attention to the care of …

PART III: SEARCH FOR THEIR MOTHER

Adoptionland NewsAdoption Trafficking, Excerpts

48 Hours brought the girls and their mothers to Guadalajara, where local guides, with the help of information from the adoption papers, took them back to the last known address of their birth mother – a woman named Norma De La Cruz. But no one in this working class neighborhood could tell the girls where to find Norma, so 48 …