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Police in the Indian capital said Wednesday they have broken up an illegal adoption racket in which newborn babies were stolen from hospitals and sold to couples. Police have arrested three members of a group operating a fake charity in New Delhi that allegedly sold two dozen babies and toddlers to couples for up to 550,000 rupees ($8,600) each. “The …
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 …
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 …
Six orphanages were found to have been buying babies who were then adopted by families from other countries. One of the convicted middlemen in that case is now out of jail. He and his mother spoke to our China correspondent, Marketplace’s Scott Tong. SCOTT TONG: As Chen Zhijing tells it, her family stumbled into the baby-selling business. In the late …
