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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 …
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 …
Kampala (AFP) – Uganda MPs have raised fresh concerns that hundreds of children have left the country through “dubious circumstances” as a result of foreigners working with local lawyers to exploit a loophole in the law, allowing them to be adopted. Last September, an official report said a boom in Uganda’s “international adoption industry” had led to some children who …
In this May 8, 2015 photo, volunteer Anne-Marie Saintou announces that only special needs children will be treated, or allowed to live at the Mercy & Sharing residential center, as she walks in the seaside community of Luly in Arcahaie, Haiti. Saintou is part of a campaign by the nonprofit organization to warn people about promoters and recruiters for orphanages …
