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A Dad’s Adoption Nightmare
People Magazine recently featured Mike Nyberg’s experience with Focus on Children and an adoption scam that led to the eventual return of his adopted child to Samoa:
Within a year after adopting Elleia, the Nybergs contacted authorities; their report helped launch the investigation into Focus on Children. Then, in late 2005, the Nybergs took Elleia to Samoa to see her family. “We needed to find out,” Mike says, “where her life should be.” At a pre-arranged meeting place, her parents, Tupu and Isaia So, were waiting. “She was hugging her mom, and her mom was crying,” Mike recalls. “Then she went to her brother. They hugged and hugged.”
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