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Adoption Fraud
Guatemala: US refuses to return snatched girl
From the Huffington Post: A Guatemalan official says the U.S. government has said it won’t return a girl adopted after being snatched from her Guatemalan mother in 2006, because the two countries had not signed the Hague Abduction Convention at the time. Guatemala’s Foreign Relations Ministry quotes the U.S. State Department as saying the two [...]
Sierra Leone: The Stolen Makeni Children
From Slate: …last month the commission released its findings and concluded that the “so-called adoptions” were fraudulent. In the commission’s words, the biological families “cannot be said to have genuinely consented” to the adoptions, as they did not understand the concept of giving up their children forever; had never signed any agreement to relinquish their [...]
Ethiopia: USDOS Adoption Notice – Summary of Adoption Service Provider Meeting with the U.S. Embassy
From the US Department of State: Ethiopia May 10, 2012 Notice: Summary of Adoption Service Provider Meeting with the U.S. Embassy In response to several requests for written summaries of the adoption service provider meetings held by the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, the Office of Children’s Issues posts this notice to provide interested parties [...]
Some Utah adoption agencies ‘coach’ mothers to take rights from fathers
From 9News (NBC): After a Colorado father went through four years of legal battles to get custody of his daughter – who was put up for adoption without his consent – 9NEWS uncovered evidence of a system in Utah where agencies are coaching mothers to deceive fathers out of their parental rights. Utah adoption lawyer [...]
Rift in Utah Adoption Council leads president to resign
From The Salt Lake Tribune: The president of the Utah Adoption Council resigned his post Tuesday — and launched his own competing organization — amid claims the group ignores unethical practices of some adoption agencies and has failed to treat birth fathers fairly. Salt Lake attorney Wes Hutchins, whose one-year term was set to end [...]
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