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Adoption Fraud
Adopted or abducted? Veil of secrecy lifts slowly on decades of forced adoptions for unwed mothers around the globe
By Dan Rather, via Yahoo News: From Australia to Spain, Ireland to America, and as recent as 1987, young mothers say they were “coerced”, “manipulated”, and “duped” into handing over their babies for adoption. These women say sometimes their parents forged consent documents, but more often they say these forced adoptions were coordinated by the people their [...]
Puzzle over adoption of Tanzanian children by foreigners
From The Citizen: …Adoption statistics gathered from public agencies in and outside the country suggest that the demand for adoptions has shot up but many of the children are being taken abroad without following proper rules and channels. The statistics are also telling, as they do not match from one agency to the other – [...]
Utah judge dismisses adoption, paternity case goes to Colorado
From Fox News (Salt Lake City): A father was in court challenging how Utah looks at father’s adoption rights on Wednesday. Robert Manzanares has waged a legal battle in Utah and Colorado for the past four years trying to get custody of his daughter, Kaia. On Wednesday, a Utah judge dismissed the adoption, which means [...]
Police rescue 24,000 women, children from Chinese human trafficking gangs
From MSNBC: A year after the Chinese government started targeting human trafficking, the country’s security ministry reported that in the last year police had rescued 24,000 women and children who had been abducted, the Irish Times reported… …The black market for children is a growing problem in China, the BBC reported, and critics blame the [...]
China: 310 traffickers arrested in national sweep
From China Daily: …More than 150 police officers from the city were divided into three groups and dispatched to Tianlin, Longlin and Xilin counties to capture human traffickers. As of Thursday, 16 suspects had been arrested. In fact, Guangxi was just one of 14 “battlefields” in the Ministry of Public Security’s crackdown against human trafficking [...]
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