Guatemalan judge orders US couple to return adopted young girl to her birth mother
By Associated Press, Wednesday, August 3, 3:12 PM
GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan judge has ordered a U.S. couple to return their adopted daughter to her birth mother, siding with a human rights group that says the girl was stolen by a child trafficking ring and put up for adoption.
..The rights group claims the girl was kidnapped in 2006 and taken out of the country under a new name two years later and was last known to be living in Missouri…
…The foundation doesn’t allege the U.S. couple knew the girl had been kidnapped…
…Guatemala’s adoption system once sent more than 4,000 children to the United States each year. But adoptions were suspended in 2007 amid widespread claims of kidnapping and fraud by suspect adoption brokers. Guatemala started a small, reformed program of international adoptions later but the United States has declined to participate…
More at this link: http://wapo.st/nnaHux
I am posting not to specifically single out Guatemalan adoptions but because the issue raises thoughts for me as an adoptive parent.
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