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Guatemala was once one of the world’s most popular adoption destinations, but stopped the practice after mass corruption was exposed. An American woman is set to stand trial over related charges. To hear the NPR news visit this site. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Guatemala was once one of the most popular countries for foreign adoption, just after China. Ten years ago …
By, Madison Wade, WBIR A Knox County mother wants answers after her adoptive daughter from Guatemala was denied a driver’s license permit twice. 16-year-old Emily Williams is eager to get behind the wheel in East Tennessee. She’s been studying hard and practicing often to hopefully get her drivers permit soon. “I’ll be like a normal teenager, who will be able …
It’s unclear how the two-year-old broke her femur, Dr. Napoleon Castillo Molinedo told me. The Guatemalan pediatrician regularly saw the child, identified as “Karen Abigail Lopéz García” in his office records, for check-up appointments and vaccinations. Firing up a weary PC, the doctor retrieved Karen’s old records, printing out a list: ten visits in the first seven months of 2007 …
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities have arrested an American accused of human trafficking and participating in illegal adoptions. Prosecutors say Nancy Susan Bailey was apprehended in El Salvador and turned over to Guatemalan authorities via Interpol at the border between the two Central American countries. The arrest warrant for Bailey was issued in 2008 and charged her with taking …
Karen Abigail Monahan is ten years old and lives with her mom and dad, Jennifer and Timothy Monahan, in Liberty, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. She is likely in the fifth grade and undoubtedly knows that she was adopted from Guatemala. Someday soon, this little girl will sit at a computer and type her own name, or that of …
