A Minnesota-based adoption agency had its license to work in Ethiopia revoked by
the government there, according to a letter posted
this week on the U.S. State Department's website here.
The letter, dated December 8, 2010, says the agency Better Futures Adoption
Services (BFAS), "has been involved in child trafficking." The letter is signed
by the director general of the Charities and Society Agency. That agency and the
Ministry of Women's Affairs, which both oversee international adoptions of
Ethiopian children, had been "researching" allegations into BFAS activities...
...There were 2277 adoptions of Ethiopian children to the US in 2009, up from just
731 three years earlier. As
CBS News reported last April, that dramatic spike in the number of foreign
adoptions from that country has opened the country up to cases of adoption fraud
and trafficking in children.
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