Babies in China seized then sold for overseas adoption

Local officials in Guizhou accused of putting infants into orphanages after poor couples fail to pay fines for 'excess' births Local officials have been accused of seizing baby girls from parents who broke birth control limits and helping hand them on to adoptive parents overseas for the equivalent of about £1,800 each, Chinese media have reported. Six officials have been punished after children were wrongly sent to an orphanage, local authorities in Guizhou province, south-west China, confirmed. The authorities were still looking into the role of the institution in the affair. "According to our investigation it is true that babies who have parents were forced into the orphanage and then abroad," an official from the Zhenyuan county family planning bureau told a newspaper which uncovered the story. The Southern Metropolis... [read full story]                    

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