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People for Ethical Adoption Reform / RESOURCE: Connecting the Dots in Ethiopia

One of PEAR’s members, Pamela Veazie, wrote an independent analysis of the Against Child Trafficking (ACT) Fruits of Ethiopia Report. In it she highlights various orphanages in Ethiopia named in the report, potential problems and agencies affiliated with those orphanages. This in-depth analysis can be found here: http://reformtalk.blogspot.com/2011/03/fruits-of-ethiopia-part-2-cases.html

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Baby girl may be stuck in Vietnam

Baby girl may be stuck in Vietnam

Sat, Apr 09, 2011

By Desmond Ng

HE WANTED a baby with his Vietnamese wife.

But the 55-year-old Singaporean thought he was old and didn't want any "medical issues".

I was the Gatwick baby

I was the Gatwick baby

Steve Hydes was abandoned at Gatwick airport in 1986, a few days after he was born. He talks about his quest to discover his heritage – and find his mother

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Joanna Moorhead

The Guardian, Saturday 9 April 2011

Two charged in adoption agency fraud investigation

Two charged in adoption agency fraud investigation

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Nadia Matos on the adoption agency charges

Two people are facing numerous fraud charges in connection with an investigation at Cambridge-based Imagine Adoption Inc.

Date: Friday Apr. 8, 2011 11:13 AM ET

Former Imagine Adoption agency operators charged with fraud and breach of trust

Former Imagine Adoption agency operators charged with fraud and breach of trust

WATERLOO, Ont. - The former operators of an Ontario adoption agency that declared bankruptcy nearly two years ago have been charged with fraud.

Waterloo Regional Police and the RCMP say Imagine Adoption agency founder Susan Hayhow and general manager Rick Hayhow were arrested Thursday.

Police allege more than $420,000 of agency funds were spent on personal items, such as vacations, clothing, and home renovations.

The pair is charged with breach of trust, fraud over $5,000 and fraud under $5,000. They have been released pending a May 26 court appearance.

Kids Link International Adoption Agency — which operated as Imagine Adoption — declared bankruptcy in July 2009.

The move left more than 350 families hoping to adopt children from overseas in limbo.

Note to readers: This is a corrected story. The arrest was made Thursday, not Tuesday.

Vorwurf Kinderhandel

Vorwurf Kinderhandel

Verzweifelter Kampf um Pflegekind Kristin/Nicoletta

Ralph Bauer/UIrich Kraetzer, aktualisiert am 08.04.2011 um 00:10 Uhr

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Uwe und Korinna Biemueller mit ihrem Sohn Nico (l.) und Pflegekind Nicoleta/Kristin – die Kleine soll zurück in ihre fremde Heimat. Foto: dapd

Directors charged with defrauding adoption agency of $420,000

Directors charged with defrauding adoption agency of $420,000

ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY

Friday, Apr. 08, 2011

The founder and general manager of an international adoption agency are accused of defrauding the agency of hundreds of thousands of dollars almost two years after trustees first found “questionable” spending in its records.

Cambridge, Ont.-based Imagine Adoption, which matched up Canadians with orphans from Ghana and Ethiopia, declared bankruptcy in July, 2009, leaving hundreds of families in adoption limbo.

Il n'est jamais interdit d'adopter un étranger

Il n'est jamais interdit d'adopter un étranger

Par Europe1.fr avec AFP

Publié le 8 avril 2011 à 12h00

Mis à jour le 8 avril 2011 à 12h00

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Russian Adoptions Slow but not Stopped a Year after Uproar

Russian Adoptions Slow but not Stopped a Year after Uproar

Thursday, April 07th, 2011, by Blake Farmer

Vickie and Wayne Tomlinson pose with their new daughter Anna after a celebration lunch in Russia.

It was a year ago this week that a small town nurse in Shelbyville put the international adoption world into an uproar. Fearful of her newly adopted son, she sent the 7-year-old back to Moscow on a one-way trip.

Russian adoptions had already been on a steady decline. Russian officials threatened to suspend placements with U.S. families altogether. But the adoption pipeline was never completely shutoff.