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What is Adoption Trafficking?
A mother who is a monk must borrow money. The lender tells her of a Christian home that would provide and train her two children for nothing. So the mother can work more to pay back the loan faster. But her children will not see her again for many years. They have been sold to an adoption agency, to America. …
What happens to Indian children after they are given up for adoption to overseas adopters?
Megha Varier, The NEWS Minute Saraswati was an infant when she was abandoned by her parents in Gaya district in Bihar. She was taken in by an NGO based out of Nalanda. When she was two-and-half years old, a Kerala couple Wesley Mathews and Sini Mathews, adopted her in July 2016. Saraswati became Sherin and started living with the couple …
The ‘orphan’ I adopted from Uganda already had a family – CNN
“CNN investigation has uncovered children purposely being orphaned, Mothers thinking they are temporarily giving up their children to be educated, instead, they’re sold to adoptive families who think they are taking an orphan in need.” Anderson Cooper For original CNN investigational report, visit here. Adam and I thoroughly researched at each step of the process in the hopes of ensuring …
Death of toddler adopted from India prompts calls to end intercountry adoptions — Reuters
Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The death in Texas of a three-year-old girl adopted from India a year ago has prompted renewed calls for an end to international adoptions, which campaigners say put vulnerable children at risk of abuse. The girl’s adoptive father, Wesley Mathews, was charged on Monday with injury to a child, a first-degree felony that …
It’s Time to Reassess Adoption
To whom it may concern: Please consider reassessing the practice of adoption. For every family created by adoption, another family is forever torn For every baby sent overseas today, his/her identity is forever altered thereafter. Against Child Trafficking specifically, addresses child trafficking. Processing children reap the highest payouts, sometimes surpassing $60 – $70,000 per child. All other trafficking focuses on …
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 …
Israel Delves Into Charged 1950s Missing Children Saga
By ARON HELLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS The stories have been circulating in Israel for decades: Newborn babies and young children of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries mysteriously disappeared shortly after arriving in the country, purportedly snatched away and given to childless couples of European backgrounds. Although a series of inquiries have dismissed claims of abductions, the accusations of a conspiracy have lingered. …
Fraud and Heartbreak Can Plague Adoptions From Africa
Government officials say sometimes parents are told their children will get an education abroad, but the youths are being adopted through shady agencies. KAMPALA, Uganda—When impoverished mother Nakiwala Hasifa signed legal guardianship papers to let a Christian pair from Mississippi have custody of her five-year-old son, Stuart Bukenya, in 2009, she thought she would hear from him regularly and that …
KPAI suspects trafficking behind missing “twin” case
The National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) has called on the HJ hospital, where a mother claims one of her twins was stolen after a cesarean section, to explain as the case indicates baby trafficking. Komnas PA chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait said he had received a report from Raudiah Elva Ningsih, 37, and an ultrasound image showing two fetuses …
Heartbreaking moment Chinese adoptive father hugs his daughter as he hands her back to her biological parents after discovering she had been kidnapped from them six years ago
After adopting a young girl years ago, a couple from north-west China’s Urumqi city had to do the unimaginable when they discovered she was a child trafficking victim. They gave their adopted daughter back to her biological parents on February 2 after finding out they had been searching for her for a number of years, reports Huanqiu.com, an affiliation of …
Operation Babylift
Cath Turner is a reporter for Al Jazeera news channel. Cath also happens to be a victim of the “Operation Babylift” that was organized by the US Government during the Vietnam war, flying-out thousands of babies during the conflict. Cath has been a subject of an award-winning documentary that investigates her life story of searching and meeting her biological mother …
When Alisha was returned to us, it was as if gold had been laid at our feet.
This is Alisha’s Story “Some people came and said they could provide good education.” Alisha’s mother said. Alisha’s father thought his daughter had been adopted abroad or had died. He had lost hope. “It’s often difficult to locate the parents. We travel to remote places. Even when we find the parents, they do not recognize their children and …
Houston Attorney Calls CPS an Adoption Mill More Interested in Money than Kids
January 31, 2016 by Randy Wallace MyFoxHouston.com Excerpts: When it comes to protecting children the state agency in charge of that has financial incentives to take kids away from their parents. “For every child that’s taken into custody for at least 6 months is covering 25 peoples’ paychecks,” says veteran family law attorney Julie Ketterman. Judges, attorneys, case workers, therapists and …
International Adoption Agency Raided by the FBI
Chris Tye, WKYC 11:14 PM. EST February 14, 2017 Strongsville – The FBI has confirmed to Channel 3 News that they executed a raid on a Strongsville international adoption agency Tuesday morning. Back in December the U.S. Department of State debarred European Adoption Consultants (EAC) from continued operation citing “a pattern of serious, willful, or grossly negligent failure to comply” …
The Real Monte Haines Deportation Story
This Korean Adoption Book Reveals the Secrets and Truth about Korean Adoptions. “Hello, my American name is Monte Haines, and my Korean name is Han Ho Kyu. At age eight, I arrived in Iowa almost 6500 miles from Seoul, South Korea. I was scared and had no idea where I was. I was given a small room to sleep in, …
Manufactured Orphans
The documentary Manufactured Orphans will air on Jan. 31 at 8pm Singapore time. “Nearly 90% of the estimated 143 million children in orphanages worldwide are not orphans at all. They are systematically bought, coerced, and stolen away from their birth families. The adoption industry is a huge market driven by money where orphans are ‘manufactured’. With the help of human …
Orphan Adoption or Child Trafficking?
The Truth. Published on Jan 15, 2017 Today’s video is about a sensitive issue: orphanages and adoption. Is our Western demand for orphans fueling an international adoption industry? I discuss what I’ve learned, and alternatives that exist. https://adoptionland.org/p/6279/being-called-anti-adoption/ To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here or to read the Huffington Post article on Adoptionland, visit here.
When Alisha was returned to us, it was as if gold had been laid at our feet.
This is Alisha’s Story “Some people came and said they could provide good education.” Alisha’s mother said. Alisha’s father thought his daughter had been adopted abroad or had died. He had lost hope. “It’s often difficult to locate the parents. We travel to remote places. Even when we find the parents, they do not recognize their children and …
Church says sorry over forced adoptions
The Catholic Church in Australia has issued a national apology over past adoption practices that have been described as a “national disgrace”. The apology was prompted by an ABC investigation into claims of abuse and trauma in Newcastle. It is believed at least 150,000 Australian women had their babies taken against their will by some churches and adoption agencies between …
Filmmaker Was Documenting Abuses in CPS and Children Murdered under State Custody Before He Died
Health Impact News Editor Comments In 2009, Bill Bowen released a trailer for a documentary film he was producing exposing the corruption within Child Protection Services across the United States. The film is called Innocence Destroyed. Bill Bowen died unexpectedly the next year, in 2010, reportedly from a heart attack, before he was able to finish the film. The segments …
Christian World Adoption (CWA)
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. …
