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Article: U.S. cites Vietnam baby-selling
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2008
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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.
Vietnam's top adoption official called the concerns "groundless."
Bribery of orphanage officials may occur, but serious offenses such
as ...
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