European Adoption Consultants Guilty of Defrauding the U.S.

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Former Executive Director of International Adoption Agency Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Adoption Scheme The former executive director of an Ohio-based international adoption agency pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of Ohio to defrauding the U.S. and Polish authorities in connection with the adoption of a Polish child. WASHINGTON (7News) — Margaret Cole, the former owner of European Adoption Consultants, pled …

BBC Sounds: Adoptees from South Korea Call for an Investigation

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BBC Sounds:  Adoptees from South Korea call for an investigation into false family histories. “Nearly 300 people adopted by European and American parents from South Korea as children have made applications demanding South Korea’s government investigate their adoptions. They suspect documents about their identities and families were falsified. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Korea has four months to …

Adoption Agencies label Korean Adoptees as orphans in order to process overseas

Are Korean Adoptees Labeled as Orphans? Investigation needed.

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Did Adoption Agencies label 200,000 Korean infants and children as orphans in order to process them overseas for international adoption? Hundreds of Korean adoptees are requesting an investigation into their adoptions. Danish Korean adoptees, along with global demand, seek the truth about their adoptions. “We have reason to suspect that a lot of the information about us, at least the …

Peter Møller, attorney and co-head of the Danish Korean Rights Group,

S. Korean adoptees allege they are wrongfully adopted.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Koreans adopted by Danish parents decades ago have formally demanded the South Korean government investigate their adoptions, which they say were marred by widespread practices that falsified or obscured children’s origins. Most of the South Korean adoptees sent abroad were registered by agencies as legal orphans found abandoned on the streets, although …

Tyler Graf, returns to his homeland and find out he was stolen from his mother in Chile at birth.

Tyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium

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Tyler Graf and fellow panelists at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium. Adopted? Your opinion matters. Fill out the survey here. What are adult adoptees saying about adoption today? Hear the stories from across the nation and overseas, representing the U.S., First Nations, India, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Haiti, New Zealand, Chile, Guatemala, Spain, and Colombia for an all-day private event …