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Article: Report: Vietnam adoptions rife with corruption.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2008
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Byline: BEN STOCKING
By Ben Stocking
The Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam
Vietnam has failed to police its adoption system, allowing corruption, fraud and baby-selling to flourish, the U.S. Embassy says in a new report obtained by The Associated Press.
The nine-page document describes brokers scouring villages for babies, hospitals selling infants whose mothers cannot pay their bills, and a grandmother giving away her grandchild - without telling the child's mother.
"I'm shocked and deeply troubled by the worst of the worst cases," said Jonathan Aloisi, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.