China’s Illicit Adoption Market Goes Online

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by Cai Yiwen Children traded through chat groups and forums could be trafficked, warns lawyer. With China’s often long and cumbersome adoption process, many prospective parents are turning to internet chat groups to buy children instead, The Beijing News reported Tuesday. On messaging app QQ, the more than 470 members of the “Home to Fulfill Your Dream” group look for either …

East African Nations To Ban Foreigners From Adopting African Children

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By: Divta Asiimwe AFRICANGLOBE – Members of the East African Legislative Assembly, who are currently sitting in Kampala, want EAC partner states to abolish international child adoption to stop the likelihood of children falling into the hands of traffickers. EALA on August 19 passed a general-purpose report on the rights of the child, which wants EAC partner states — Uganda, …

Roelie Post, from the Foundation Against Child Trafficking

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Roelie Post interviewed here: The Traffickers, The Dark Side of Adoption, available on Netflix here. FUSION PRESENTS: The Trafficker Click on the link below for the episode preview: The Dark Side of Adoption Inside the underworld of international adoption Who’s really profiting from international adoptions? Is this adoption agency selling children? In many developing countries the concept of adoption is a …

Toddler’s murder reopens old wounds for Korean adoptees

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Shannon Heit, 33, trembled with rage as she recalled the moment two months ago when she heard that a Korean boy had been killed by his adoptive father in the U.S. Heit, a freelance translator in Seoul, is not related to the boy. But she said that, as a Korean-American adoptee herself, she felt a deep connection to him, and …

A Ring of Scammers Is Trolling Adoption Websites and Duping Desperate Couples

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By Anna Merlan South Carolina’s Post and Courier has a bizarre and heartbreaking story today about adoption scammers, who are tricking desperate childless couples and then vanishing. The truly weird thing: some of them aren’t doing it for money, but instead, as the paper puts it, “for the sheer sport of breaking some stranger’s heart.” The Post and Courier’s feature …