Parents sue after adopting Chinese girl, 8, with spina bifida only to find she is also deaf, blind, has hepatitis C, epilepsy, and scoliosis

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The front featured photo:  Robert Meeker with his adopted daughter, Carys. Robert and Amy Meeker, from Dallas, Texas, agreed to adopt Chinese girl Parents told Carys, eight, had spinda bifida but agreed to take her anyway But when she arrived at their home, couple found a host of other issues They say girl is blind, deaf, has hepatitis C, severe …

Couple says adoption agency lied about child’s severe health problems

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A couple who adopted an 8-year-old girl from China knew she had special needs — but they claim they were duped by a Morningside Heights adoption agency about just how dire her health situation really was. Robert and Amy Meeker were aware that little Kaitlyn had spina bifida — a birth defect of the spinal cord — when they began …

Chinese baby trafficking leaves farmers forlorn

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Children taken under guise of one-child policy and sent to be adopted abroad By Anthony Germain, CBC News. Forty-seven year old Yang Li Bing puffs on a cigarette as he shuffles through photos of a daughter he hasn’t seen in seven years. “After she was taken in 2004, I could hardly sleep and I asked my wife if we could have …

Lid lifts on the anguish of China’s stolen generation

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TIANXI, China: The man from family planning regularly prowled around the mountaintop village, looking for nappies on clotheslines and listening for the cry of a hungry newborn. One day in spring 2004, he presented himself at Yang Shuiying’s doorstep and commanded: ”Bring out the baby.” Yang wept and argued, but, alone with her four-month-old daughter, she was in no position …

Babies for sale on Facebook

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PETALING JAYA: Babies are now available for sale through Facebook. Checks by the Sun showed more than 600,000 hits through Google which displayed both open and closed Facebook pages with details such as infants’ age, gender, and health. Potential adopters are provided with details of the mother’s pregnancy stage, and, based on a case-by-case basis, her monetary needs until post-delivery, …