46-year-old David has spent ten years getting to the bottom of his adoption case. True crime TV has come out of that

Is another documentary about the problems in the adoption field really needed? The short answer is yes, writes Frauke Giebner in this column.

" This should never have happened", says 46-year-old David, when, after ten years of detective work, he understands the extent of the lies in his adoption case.

And we already know that. This means that serious mistakes have been made in adoption cases from a large number of countries. Babies have been traded and lied to as orphans, and parents have been robbed of their children by so-called child harvesters. Can that story stand to be told one more time?