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Unscrupulous fraudsters persuade vulnerable families to hand over their children – who then disappear into a flourishing ‘orphanage industry’. Fiona Broom reports on efforts to stop the child-trafficking trade. In Nepal’s remote mountain villages, an insidious force has for two decades been destroying young lives and tearing families apart. The devastation visited on these villages is no natural disaster, but one …
It took months to piece together last night’s story about women who were forced to give up their children for adoption during the baby boomer years. I spoke to dozens of mothers who had their babies taken from them. Most are still too traumatised to consider sharing their stories publicly, and Debra Harris should be applauded for having the courage …
Alexis Stevens liked to describe herself as a model citizen. She was adopted from England by a U.S. military family who moved her to Texas. She raised a family, put herself through college and became a school teacher. Four years ago, Stevens and her husband, Wayne, decided to celebrate their wedding anniversary and Stevens’ completion of her master’s degree by …
A Los Gatos couple is facing criminal charges for years of alleged sexual abuse of their adoptive child. By Robert Handa A Los Gatos man claims he was forced into life as a child sex slave by his adoptive parents. Denis Flynn is now suing the couple for damages. The Los Gatos couple who adopted him also face criminal charges for …
The recent scandal in which a Russian-born man sued the US couple who had adopted him as a boy over “years of sexual servitude” is more proof that international adoption is dangerous, upper house MP Yelena Mizulina has said. “With regret, I have to state once again – with frightening persistence such incidents demonstrate the dangers of international adoption. It …
