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Home> International American to Face Trial in Guatemala Adoption Case
American to Face Trial in Guatemala Adoption Case
GUATEMALA CITY — Jan 8, 2015, 6:46 PM ET
Associated Press
A Guatemalan court has ordered an American woman to stand trial on charges of participating in illegal adoptions.
The prosecutors' office for human trafficking says the court found sufficient evidence to try Nancy Susan Bailey, who is being treated for high blood pressure at a Guatemalan hospital.
Bailey was apprehended in El Salvador and turned over to Guatemalan authorities at the border between the two Central American countries Dec. 17.
The arrest warrant for Bailey was issued in 2008 and charged her with taking children and putting them up for illegal adoption for fees as high as $40,000.
Bailey founded the orphanage Seeds of Love outside Guatemala's capital in 1996.
Guatemala's International Commission Against Impunity said in a 2010 report that it found 3,342 irregular adoptions, mostly to U.S. couples.
This, unfortunately is not that uncommon among inter county adoptions. It is true, though, that most inter country adoptions "launder" the children to make them seem legal. The reality is that almost every one of these children has family who loves and wants them.
If adoptee where given the right to their own name and family histories child trafficking would significantly decrease. Become involved. Demand human rights for adopted people.
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