Parents of illegally adopted girl sentenced
An Argentina couple was sentenced to prison for illegally adopting a girl 30 years ago.
From the BBC:
An Argentine couple have been jailed for illegally adopting a baby girl born 30 years ago to parents who were kidnapped by the military government.
The case was brought by the adopted woman, Maria Eugenia Sampallo, whose real parents [...]
The $100 million Guatemalan Adoption Industry
The AP reports on the case against Casa Quivira, an adoption agency in Guatemala, that has been charged with human trafficking and fraud.
From the AP:
wo Guatemalan lawyers retained by an adoption agency that has sent scores of children to the U.S. have been charged with fraud and human trafficking, their attorneys said on Monday.
Vilma Zamora [...]
US to increase oversight of international adoptions
From The New York Times:
The United States, the world leader in international adoptions, will join more than 70 nations committed to standardizing policies, procedures and safeguards to reduce corruption in the largely unregulated adoption marketplace.
When the United States ratifies the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption tomorrow in the Netherlands, it will establish federal oversight of [...]
African children were not “orphans”, according to UN
The children at the center of the global scandal involving French Organization Zoe’s Ark are not orphans, according to the United Nations.
Virtually all of the children a French aid group tried to fly out of Chad had been living with family members in villages and were not orphans of the Darfur conflict, as the group claimed, [...]
Guatemala attempts to prevent illegal adoptions
Guatemalan lawmakers are attempting to create policies to ensure the legitimacy of the adoption process in Guatemala.
Guatemalan President Oscar Berger said Tuesday that his government is simply working to make adoptions more secure and not trying to interfere with U.S. families already in the process of adopting some 3,700 children from the Central American nation.
In [...]
Illegal Adoptions in Guatemala
Voice of America News has an article highlighting the black market trade in adoptions that is currently taking place in Guatemala.
Every year, thousands of people from the United States visit the Central American nation of Guatemala, not just for tourism, but to adopt babies. Last year, more than 4,000 Guatemalan children were adopted by US [...]
