Ring in Columbia Kidnaps Children for Sale Abroad

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By Warren Hoge, Special To the New York Times 8-16-81 The authorities have uncovered a multimillion-dollar international ring in which hundreds of poor Andean children were kidnapped or bought from their mothers and sold under forged birth certificates and adoption papers to childless couples from the United States and Europe. A Bogota lawyer has been jailed on charges involving the smuggling …