Operating since the 1980’s, a child trafficking
ring, uncovered by the Mexican police in mid-January in Guadalajara, Jalisco,
has been providing hundreds of children to adoptive families in other
countries. Starting on January 9, 2012, Laura Talamantes Fabiola Carranza was
accused of selling two-year-old son.
This led to the arrest of nine others. They were said to participating in the same trafficking
ring. Some of the mothers of the
children said they thought they were releasing their children to be
photographed to be apart of an anti-abortion advertising campaign. Some were also paid $188 per week to
carry the pregnancies to term then hand over the child to be apart of an
adoption. These adoptions were
usually in conjunction with Irish families.
There
have been many American states said to be working in conjunction with the
Mexican-Irish adoptions including New York and Colorado. The only approves agency is through
California. Laws prohibited “private”
adoptions from Mexico, making many of these exchanges illegal. Due to the legal actions linked to the
adoptions out of Mexico, this tampered with the validity and accountability of
many organizations in America. The
unclear origin of the children, whether they are being trafficked or are
actually a part of an adoption agency, causes skeptical looks toward the
adoption agency, causing decreases in their business and economic
standing. One agency actually
closed due to these investigations.
These schemes affect the legal and economic aspect of the adoption
process as well as the social and structure aspect of the families that could
possibly be disrupted to put together new ones.
No comments:
Post a Comment