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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 …

Indian family desperately want to see their stolen daughter again, maybe for the last time. Stolen from India and adopted to Australia.

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Fatima and Salya are the parents of four children.  In 1998,  one of them, then two-year-old was kidnapped then sold to a corrupt adoption agency that  forged  records to make it appear she had been abandoned. She was adopted by  a family in Queensland, Australia. Indian police uncovered the scam in 2005 and arrested the child-stealers who  provided details of …

Guilty Plea In Adoption Fraud Case

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SEATTLE – A baby-selling scandal targeted local couples anxious to adopt. The families thought they were adopting orphans from overseas, but in many cases the babies weren’t orphans. Wednesday, the woman who helped set up the adoptions pleaded guilty. Lauryn Galindo has claimed all she wanted to do was give poor third world children a loving home. But, federal investigators …

Cambodia-Adoption Scandal

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Published on May 29, 2012 The Cambodian Adoption Scandal involving Lauryn Galindo- the facilitator that Angelina Jolie used. SEATTLE – A baby-selling scandal targeted local couples anxious to adopt. The families thought they were adopting orphans from overseas, but in many cases, the babies weren’t orphans. To read more, click the news below. Read Vice’s Cambodian Adoption Fraud here. Help …