List of international adoption scandals

The following is a partial list, by year, of notable incidents or reports of international adoption scandals,[1][2][3][4][5] adoption corruption, child harvesting, baby-stealing, legal violations in international adoption, or adoption agency corruption (see child laundering; child trafficking:[6][7] "In the United States international adoptions are a big business, where a large number of private international adoption agencies are paid on average $30,000 a time to find a child for hopeful parents."[8]

2017

Ethiopia indefinitely suspended all adoptions to the United States.[9][10]

2010

2009

2007

2005

2004

2003

2001

This followed investigations by a local human rights group and the Phnom Penh Post exposing baby-buying and abduction through Lauryn Galindo's adoption operations, as well as others. In 2004, Galindo pleaded guilty to federal charges and was sentenced to 18 months in prison and also ordered to forfeit more than $1.4 million in property in Hawaii.[31]

2000

1999

1995-1996

1994

References

  1. David M. Smolin, Child Laundering: How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing Children, also published by the Wayne Law Review.
  2. David M. Smoin, Unpublished: Child Laundering As Exploitation: Applying Anti-Trafficking Norms to Intercountry Adoption Under the Coming Hague Regime.
  3. David M. Smolin, The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption: The Significance of the Indian Adoption Scandals, Seton Hall Law Review.
  4. Adopting Internationally Website.
  5. David M. Smolin, Intercountry Adoption as Child Trafficking, Valparaiso Law Review .
  6. "What To Do". Adopting Internationally. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
  7. Archived July 4, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  8. 1 2 "U.S. adoption agencies exploit Ethiopian children – documentary". Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  9. Arsenault, Cassy (May 8, 2017). "Ethiopian suspension on international adoptions has West Michigan family worried for soon-to-be-son with heart condition". Fox17.
  10. Lemma, Tarikuwa. "International adoption: I was stolen from my family". CNN.
  11. Levy, Clifford J. (April 15, 2010). "Russia Seeks Ways to Keep Its Children". The New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  12. "Quotes of the Day". Time. April 16, 2010. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  13. Levy, Clifford J. (May 3, 2010). "Russian Orphanage Offers Love, but Not Families". The New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  14. Russian officials call for suspension of adoptions to U.S. parents after death of Dillsburg-area boy, By LARA BRENCKLE, The Patriot-News, March 05, 2010, 12:00AM
  15. "上海日报 - English Window to China News". Shanghai Daily. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
  16. ["http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6958072&page=1 Four Sentenced in Scheme to 'Adopt' Samoan Kids--Prosecutors: Adoption Agency Tricked Samoan Parents Into Giving Children Up for Adoption," Beth Tribolet, Teri Whitcraft and Scott Michels, ABC News Law & Justice Unit, February 26, 2009.]
  17. "Canadian parents raise concerns". CBC News. March 19, 2009. Archived from the original on April 23, 2009.
  18. "Dutch agency stops adoption from Ethiopia pending investigation". Archived from the original on 2009-09-26. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  19. "16 On Trial For Selling Babies For Adoption". The Independent. London. September 23, 2009.
  20. "Cleaning Up International Adoptions". Time. August 29, 2007.
  21. "Home - International Organization for Migration". Iom.int. 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
  22. Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Thomson Reuters Foundation | News, Information and Connections for Action". Alertnet.org. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
  23. "Home - International Organization for Migration". Iom.int. 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
  24. "Xinhua - English". News.xinhuanet.com. 2005-11-24. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
  25. Research-China.Org (2006-10-09). "Research-China.Org: Hunan - One Year After - Part One". Research-china.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2013-09-27.; Brian H. Stuy (with foreword by David Smolin), Open Secret: Cash and Coercion in China's International Adoption Program" Cumberland Law Review 44.3 (2014): 355-422.
  26. 1 2 "Death prompts Samoan adoption change". One News. June 27, 2005. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  27. http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/insight9e.pdf
  28. "Judge attacks social worker over international adoption scandal". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  29. Archived June 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  30. Desiree Smolin and David Kruchkow, Why Bad Stories Must Be Told, The Adoption Agency Checklist,
  31. https://web.archive.org/web/20090804110545/http://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/gender/adoption/outofcambodia.html. Archived from the original on August 4, 2009. Retrieved November 1, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  32. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20060928150400/http://untreaty.un.org/English/TreatyEvent2003/Texts/treaty2E.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2006. Retrieved November 1, 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  33. 1 2 "The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption: The Significance of the Indian Adoption Scandals" Seton Hall Law Review Thirty-Five.Number Two (2005): 403-493. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_smolin/2
  34. Morning Edition. "An Adoption Gone Wrong". NPR. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
  35. Jorge L. Carro, Regulation of Intercountry Adoption: Can the Abuses Come to an End?, 18 HASTINGS INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 121, 144 (1994)(documenting “baby trafficking” problems in Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Colombia, Honduras, Sri Lanka, and Romania).
  36. 1 2 see footnote 29
  37. Jorge L. Carro, Regulation of Intercountry Adoption: Can the Abuses Come to an End?, 18 HASTINGS INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 121, 144 (1994) (documenting “baby trafficking” problems in Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Colombia, Honduras, Sri Lanka, and Romania).
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