American To Stand Trial Over Guatemalan Adoptions – NPR News
Guatemala was once one of the world’s most popular adoption destinations, but stopped the practice after mass corruption was exposed. An American woman is set to stand trial over related charges. To hear the NPR news visit this site. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Guatemala was once one of the most popular countries for foreign adoption, just after China. Ten years ago …
Newborn traffickers preyed on unwed mothers, booked babies in advance for sale
Racket operators took advance money from a couple just by showing them a pregnant woman whose baby they would have passed on to them. The newborn traffickers of Jalpaiguri were constantly on the lookout for unwed mothers who were not in a position to keep and rear their children, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sleuths have found out. The babies these …
An Against Child Trafficking Success Story
An Excerpt from “Inside Story of an Adoption Scandal” by Arun Dohle gives reason for the need for searches and reunions: “In historical terms, intercountry adoptions from India have had a short run. Within thirty years of its inception, murky scandals of child kidnapping, falsifying paperwork, outright trading, and other tragic stories have ridden these intercountry adoptions. Worldwide, adoption experts widely believed …
Fly Away Children Response
CHRISTIAN WORLD ADOPTION (CWA) “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. “I would have never brought home a child that had a mom, never,” she …