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Ireland: Warning over illegal private adoptions from Mexico
From The Irish Times: The Chairman of the Adoption Authority of Ireland has warned prospective adoptive parents not to enter into any private arrangements in Mexico. Geoffrey Shannon said while some individual states within Mexico allow private adoption, none sanction private inter-country adoption. The warning comes after Mexican police said they were planning to question 11 [...]
4 women held in Mexican child-trafficking case
From The Sacramento Bee: Investigators say four women are being held in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara in connection with an apparent child-trafficking ring that aimed to supply babies to childless Irish couples. The Jalisco state prosecutor’s office says a 21-year-old woman has been arrested after a relative reported that she was “renting out” [...]
Voice of Survivors: Human Trafficking Prevention Month
From The Huffington Post: When I was seven years old, a woman approached my family promising to give me a good education and a better life. My mother agreed because, she was told, she could visit me on a regular basis close to our home. But instead of giving me a better life, this well-respected [...]
International Adoption or Child Trafficking? (Book review of Finding Fernanda)
From The American Prospect: Between 1998 and 2008, nearly 30,000 Guatemalan-born children (mostly infants and toddlers) were adopted by U.S. parents. In some years, that meant that an astonishing 1 out of 100 children born in Guatemala was adopted by an American family. For most of that time, everyone but the prospective adoptive parents knew—or [...]
Would-be Utah dad says misplaced trust cost him his son
From The Salt Lake Tribune: As they toured the holiday lights at Temple Square last December, Jake Strickland and Whitney Pettersson looked like just another happy, expectant couple. Their baby was due in less than two weeks, and although not married or even in a relationship any longer, they’d decided to raise the child together. [...]
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