When Adoption is Kidnapping

Check out this heartbreaking story from CNN — Kids for Sale. It follows the story of a young Ugandan girl adopted by a family in the United States. The U.S. family was told that their new daughter was an orphan. She wasn’t. She came from a loving home, with a mother who missed her deeply.

It was, as CNN alleges, a “trafficking scheme” affecting “multiple families.”

Ugandan parents were told that their children would have “a great educational opportunity,” “would one day return,” and would remain part of their lives.

Instead, kids were “placed into orphanages even though they aren’t orphans, and sold for as much as $15,000 each to unsuspecting American families.”

The adoptive family in the U.S. was horrified that the child they’d welcomed wasn’t an orphan but had been “made an orphan.” Ultimately, they were able to reunite the daughter who can come to them with her birth mother in Uganda.

-KitJ