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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 …
By Katy Migiro and Tom Esslemont KAMPALA/LONDON, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The first time Jaja, a Ugandan woman, saw her one-year-old granddaughter, she was in the arms of an American man who she was told had “bought” the child. The toddler was sitting with the man and his wife, eating biscuits and drinking juice, as they sought legal …
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 …
Imagine for one moment your child went missing. It’s a common enough event worldwide for today, May 25, to be declared International Missing Children’s Day. Surely you would expect no stone to be left unturned to find your child – even if took six months, a year, or two. But how would you feel if your child was permanently given …
