Imagine being told your child is dead, only to find out he is actually alive!

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With orphanages being closed, Grace Center is receiving more and more children in the full-time residential care facility, known to many as the children’s home or temporary care center. Six of our children came from one corrupt orphanage when it was closed. All of these children have different stories of how they actually came to be declared “abandoned”.  One of …

KPAI suspects trafficking behind missing “twin” case

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The National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) has called on the HJ hospital, where a mother claims one of her twins was stolen after a cesarean section, to explain as the case indicates baby trafficking. Komnas PA chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait said he had received a report from Raudiah Elva Ningsih, 37, and an ultrasound image showing two fetuses …

Nigeria’s baby mills victimize vulnerable mothers, sell infants on black market

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By Ali Abare Abubakar – Special to The Washington Times – – Monday, June 13, 2016 Enunu, Nigeria — Four months pregnant, Ugwu Christabel, a scared 17-year-old from Aku in southeastern Nigeria, looked to the heavens for help after her parents threw her out of their home. Then she looked to the Tex Hospital and Maternity Home in nearby Enunu, where single, …

The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters

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A new book debunks the myth that Chinese parents favored sons. BY KATHRYN JOYCE June 1, 2016 In 2011, when I was researching a book on international adoption, I met a man who made the incredible claim that he had founded a benevolent child-trafficking ring in China, whisking baby girls away from near-certain infanticide to the safety of North American …

Politicians close their eyes for adoptions backing

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One country after another closed down adoption because of suspected corruption and child trafficking. Yet Danish politicians are more concerned with ensuring childless families may adopt than to scrutinize the cases where adoption has gone wrong. KRONIKEN 31 MAY. 2016 Ethiopia is now definitively closed to Danish families who want to adopt. In March soc ial and Interior Minister Karen …