Rehoming: Dan Rather Reports

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“Rehoming” is an underground system that enables adoptive parents to advertise their adopted children on the internet or through informal religious or civic connections to place them with other willing families without legal safeguards or regulations. To many human rights proponents, this underground method of moving children is seen as another form of abandonment and child trafficking. Adoption: What You …

Catholic Charities and Holt

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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 …

A onetime division chief for the National Security Agency is expected to plead guilty to child abuse resulting in death of his 3 y.o. Korean adopted son

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A onetime division chief for the National Security Agency is expected to plead guilty this month to child abuse resulting in death, according to records filed in Montgomery County Circuit Court. Brian O’Callaghan, 38, of Damascus was arrested last year in connection with the death of his 3-year-old son, Madoc. At that time, authorities said O’Callaghan beat the child to …

Spain’s Stolen Babies

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Up to 300,000 babies in Spain were stolen from ‘undesirable’ families and trafficked by an unholy alliance of doctors, the Catholic Church, and Franco’s Secret police. Now, decades on, some of these stolen children are trying to find their biological families. The racket began shortly after the Spanish Civil War as a way of stopping a new generation of ‘Reds’ …