Category: fraud
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The Friday Times: Adoption Scandals Expose Cracks In Pakistan’s Child Protection System
Pakistan’s child protection gaps exposed as adoption scandals reveal unregistered orphanages, weak enforcement, and risks of children becoming paper orphans By Amir Murtaza and Dr. Justin Rogers Link to story
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She was adopted at 11 by a French family, but there’s a legal twist: her biological family didn’t agree
Yooree Kim was sent from South Korea to France, but her parents thought she was abandoned. By Joe Brennan Link to story.
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The Korea Times: Adoptees voice deep concerns regarding state takeover of adoption system
By Jung Min-ho Link to story.
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Korea Times: Korea improves adoption transparency, access, accountability
By Ma Kyung-hee Link to story. As of July 19, under the Special Act on Domestic Adoption and the Act on International Adoption, the Korean government has assumed full responsibility for managing both domestic and international adoptions, marking a transition from a private agency-led model to a public system. These reforms aim to streamline adoption…
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The Washington Post: Was he given up for adoption? Or was he taken?
By Elahe Izadi and Kelly Kasulis Cho From the story: In South Korea, the findings of a government inquiry confirmed what many adoptees had suspected for decades: Babies were sent abroad for profit, often with falsified backstories. In Michigan, a man is questioning his origin story. Over the weekend, South Korea announced it would end…
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JoongAng Daily: Adoptees left with mixed feelings, unanswered questions as Korean government reins in ‘baby exports’
By Michael Lee/Lee Jun Hyuk From story: For decades, thousands of Korean children were sent abroad for adoption, their lives determined by private agencies operating with minimal oversight and often incomplete documentation. One of those children was John Quick, now a 42-year-old restaurant owner in Seoul, who was adopted just six months old by an American…
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The Korea Herald: South Korea moves to end ‘baby exports,’ state to take full responsibility
By Choi Jeong-yoon From story: Link to article.
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The Korea Times: Adoptees raise alarm over NCRC’s handling of records
By Antonia Giordano Link to story. Despite renewed attention and government pledges to support adoptee rights, the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), now tasked with centralizing decades of adoption records, is facing scrutiny over mismanagement and technical errors. Hopes were initially high when the NCRC took over from private agencies that…
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Arise News: Police dismantle transnational child trafficking rings, rescue 40 foreign victims
By Linus Aleke From story: The Nigeria Police Force said operatives of the Zone-13 Police Command have dismantled two major transnational child trafficking syndicates operating within the country and rescued multiple victims, including children, pregnant women, and 40 foreign nationals. The Police also disclosed no fewer than eleven suspected child traffickers were apprehended across two…
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The Conversation: ‘Next time bring back my daughter’: Barbara Demick reunited a Chinese family with the stolen ‘missing twin’ adopted in the US
By Kathryn Shine Link to story.
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