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November 2000. Martin Adler goes undercover to report on the profit-driven adoption business in Guatemala. He reveals how children are not being sold to would-be parents from overseas; they are actually being sold to meet demand. 99% of Guatemala’s adoptions are organized by private sector agencies and lawyers, who use the weak adoption laws, and the internet, to profit from selling …
Since a few years ago came to light that adopted children from Ethiopia were ‘harvested’ and conned from their parents, caused a stir. But adoptions from numerous other countries saves on false papers, lies and deceit. Now a new law on the way to provide secure adoptions – maybe. The affluent South Korea is considered a model country for international …
A shocked nation remembers 1990s scandal about corrupt adoption procedures and wonders how much is still going on. March 12, 2006 | Rick Vecchio | Associated Press LIMA, Peru — When the body of Claudina Herrera was discovered almost five months ago by the side of a highway, curled in the fetal position in a cardboard box, the cause of …
Three year old Madoc (aka Hyunsu) was adopted from South Korea under the new laws by Brian and Jennifer O’Callaghan in October 2013. He had a diagnosis of hydrocephalus. He died less than 4 months after his arrival in his adoptive home with a skull fracture, bleeding in the brain, eye hemorrhaging, trauma to his scrotum, and other evidence of …
