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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 …
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 …
A millionaire’s son was adopted in the U.S., unknown to his mother. He wants answers. November 2004 | Nora Zamichow Mee Yeon Lee clutched her 4-year-old son’s pudgy hand as she led the boy into the lobby of his father’s office building. In her other hand, she held a small bag with his clothes. Two men in dark suits waited. One, …
For five increasingly horrific years, the adoption agencies insisted that Chad Ostrowski’s memory of a father in Korea was fantasy. When Anne Marie and John finally learned the truth about their beloved boy, they made the ultimate sacrifice. By Peg Tyre On August 11, 1989, a pale, anxious 8-year-old boy wearing a thin cotton T-shirt and shorts walked through the …
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities have arrested an American accused of human trafficking and participating in illegal adoptions. Prosecutors say Nancy Susan Bailey was apprehended in El Salvador and turned over to Guatemalan authorities via Interpol at the border between the two Central American countries. The arrest warrant for Bailey was issued in 2008 and charged her with taking …
