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Missouri: Guatemalan adoption case may make it to Supreme Court
From the Joplin Globe: Arguments in an adoption case involving a Carthage couple and a child born to a Guatemalan mother in the country illegally may be heard by the Missouri Supreme Court. A petition filed on behalf of Seth and Melinda Moser is asking Missouri’s highest court to hear the issue after a motion [...]
Guatemala: U.S. Department of State Adoption Alert – August 27, 2010
From the U.S. Department of State: Adoption Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of Children’s Issues Hogar Listserv Updates The Office of Children’s Issues provides regular updates to families and adoption service providers specifically affected by legal actions taken regarding hogares or child care centers for children awaiting intercountry adoptions. If [...]
Burned by a baby broker
From the Star Tribune: Three cribs stand empty in the unused bedroom of Suann Hibbs’ Edina home, and the closet is full of unworn baby clothes. Sad reminders, Hibbs says, of her broken dream of bringing home three orphans from Guatemala to raise as her daughters. She spent three years and thousands of dollars on [...]
Mississippi: Questions linger about Barretos’ seven foreign adoptions
From the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal: Ramon and Janet Barreto were approved three times across two years to adopt seven children from Guatemala, according to documents from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Memphis. Several years before, they had adopted a daughter with a health problem. They reportedly kept her in a cage in [...]
Guatemala: Frustrated, Chief of Corruption Panel Resigns
From The New York Times: Carlos Castresana, the Spanish judge leading a United Nations commission charged with fighting Guatemala’s corruption and impunity, has given up in frustration. After two and a half years at the head of the commission, known as Cicig, Mr. Castresana resigned on Monday, saying that Guatemala had failed to keep promises [...]
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