Spanish couple accused of murdering adopted Chinese daughter reiterate innocence

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Madrid (AFP) – A Spanish couple accused of drugging and suffocating their 12-year-old adopted Chinese daughter reiterated their innocence on Friday on the last day of their trial, in a case that has drawn the attention of Beijing. Rosario Porto, a former lawyer, and her ex-husband, journalist Alfonso Basterra, are accused of murdering Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto, whom they …

Kidnapped and Sold: Inside the Dark World of Child Trafficking in China

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CHARLIE CUSTER Some Americans have unknowingly adopted Chinese babies taken from their parents and sold to orphanages. But can Congress do anything about it? In March 2011, Rose Candis had the worst lunch of her life. Sitting at a restaurant in Shaoguan, a small city in South China, the American mother tried hard not to vomit while her traveling companion …

How do you know if you adopted a real orphan or a kidnapped child?

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China: 200,000 children abducted and sold yearly Around 200,000 children disappear every year, only 0.1% found back, “According to various different statistics, in China the incomplete statistical figure of disappeared children every year is about 200,000. “Those found and returned roughly account for only 0.1% of the figure. “Behind the figure of disappeared children, there are stories of various different …

The Dark Side of Chinese Adoptions

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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 …

Adoptionland: Brutal essays by adult adoptees expose the truth of intercountry adoption

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With news that Vietnam is once again going to allow their children to be adopted out of country, reading a collection of essays by people who were uprooted and transplanted into new cultures is ice water on all those squishy ideals of what intercountry (or international adoption) does. The writers whose essays come together in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists …