Russia looks into alleged child trafficking in US
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Russian federal investigators have launched a criminal probe into suspected child trafficking in the US following an investigation that found adopted children, some born in Russia, were being traded on the Internet.
The Investigative Committee opened the case after the reports found “adopted Russian children being transferred to different families in breach of their rights,” spokesman Vladimir Markin said yesterday.
The Reuters investigation uncovered an underground market where desperate parents sought new families for children they had adopted but no longer wanted.
Parents connect through online forums on Yahoo and Facebook, privately arranging custody transfers that can bypass government oversight and sometimes violate the law.
Markin said 26 Russian children had been among those traded through such forums. Some later became victims of sexual abuse.
A study last month by Donaldson Adoption Institute, a major US adoption research group, called for “targeted laws, policies and practices” to stop adoptive parents from giving up children to strangers through the Internet.
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