"FInding Fernanda" in the Media
Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform (PEAR) has posted a review by PEAR board member David Kruchkow on their website. An excerpt:…
The Miami Herald says that Finding Fernanda is “comprised of heavy-duty investigative reporting and compelling personal testimony.” Here’s an excerpt…
Dan Raviv, CBS Radio News correspondent, calls Finding Fernanda “a moving story” and says it will “really tug at your…
The premier of the Tiny Spark: Igniting Debate about the Business of Doing Good podcast, sponsored by the Chronicle of…
A lengthy new review in this week’s Christian Science Monitor says of Finding Fernanda, “…Reads like a mystery novel, but…
The Crime Report has a front-page feature on Finding Fernanda today, an in-depth Q & A about the book. The…
I’ll be talking about my book with Yvonne Nava from NBC channel 30 in my home state of Connecticut today,…
“I never meant to write a book; the story simply demanded it.” The New Yorker has a blog post up featuring…
Ongoing Criminal Investigations
UPDATE: The verdict from Guatemala is in. Both women have been found guilty of human trafficking, document fraud, and criminal enterprise (“asociación ilicita”). Valle Flores de…
Agency Watch: Celebrate Children International
Adoptive parents Jeanna and Michael Malota filed a lawsuit on September 21, 2011 against Celebrate Children International (CCI), the adoption agency in my book, Finding Fernanda. The Malotas have accused CCI of false reporting, saying that the agency had hidden the fact that one of the…
Internal Documents
Q & A
The Embrey family began adopting two young sisters, ages 4 and 6, from Guatemala in 2007. The older girl was able to immigrate to the…
On the Ground in Guatemala
There’s a new Spanish news documentary called “Children Without Faces,” produced by the media outlet RTVE in Spain. Here’s their description of the piece: “Las redes de crimen organizado extienden sus tentáculos sobre la trata de seres humanos y la explotación infantil casi al mismo ritmo que las adopciones internaciones se…
National Investigations
In a blog post from last week, I wrote about how the Florida Department of Children and Families has sent their investigations into the adoption agency Celebrate Children International over…
