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	<title>Finding Fernanda by Erin Siegal</title>
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		<title>5/15/2012: &#8220;Guatemala mom to ask US court help on adopted girl  &#8220;</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/05/5152012-guatemala-mom-to-ask-us-court-help-on-adopted-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 01:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clip Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anyeli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Genser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Abigail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loyda rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIssouri adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perseus Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy and Jennifer Monahan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another update in the Karen Abigail case: &#8220;A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department has said it doesn&#8217;t have jurisdiction to help return the girl&#8230;&#8221; Read the full article here: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20631164/guatemala-mom-ask-us-court-help-adopted-girl]]></description>
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		<title>Associated Press reports US &#8220;won’t return adopted girl snatched from Guatemalan mother;” Loyda Rodríguez may file suit in Missouri court</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/05/breaking-associated-press-reports-us-won%e2%80%99t-return-adopted-girl-snatched-from-guatemalan-mother%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Karen Abigail Case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Susana Luarca"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anyelí Liseth Hernández Rodríguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anyeli Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby selling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebrate children international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consejo Nacional de Adopciones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erin Siegal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundación Sobrevivientes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Genser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Abigail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kidnapped children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy and Jennifer Monahan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Associated Press reports, the spokesperson for Guatemala&#8217;s Ministry of Exterior Relations, Celeste Alvarado, stated that the United States has presented a diplomatic note refusing to return the child now known as &#8220;Karen Abigail&#8221; to her mother in Guatemala. The objection, the AP reports, is based on the fact that neither Guatemala nor the United States were party to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction at the time of the girl&#8217;s kidnapping in 2006. When the girl left Guatemala on December 9, 2008 alongside adoptive parents Timothy and Jennifer Monahan, both countries had ratified the treaty. UPDATE: 5/15/2012: A new AP article now says that Loyda Rodríguez plans to file suit in a US court: &#8220;A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department has said it doesn&#8217;t have jurisdiction to help return the girl&#8230;&#8221; Read the full article here: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20631164/guatemala-mom-ask-us-court-help-adopted-girl The previous AP piece, in Spanish, was picked up by ElPeriódico. A shortened English version appeared in the Washington Post. This brief and slightly modified excerpt from &#8220;Finding Fernanda&#8221;... ]]></description>
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		<title>5/14/2012: &#8220;Guatemala: US gov’t says it won’t return adopted girl who was snatched from Guatemalan mother,&#8221; Associated Press</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/05/5142012-guatemala-us-gov%e2%80%99t-says-it-won%e2%80%99t-return-adopted-girl-who-was-snatched-from-guatemalan-mother-associated-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clip Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anyelí Liseth Hernández Rodríguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guatemalan adoption fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Genser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Monahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Abigail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Monahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kidnapped children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loyda rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perseus Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy and]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy and Jennifer Monahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Monahan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a bit of breaking news in the Karen Abigail case this afternoon. This article (which was published in Spanish as well as in the shortened English version linked below) says the following: According to Celeste Alvarado, spokesperson for Guatemala’s Ministry of Foreign Relations, the United States has informed Guatemala that the Monahans will not be returning “Karen Abigail,” also known as Anyelí Rodríguez, the stolen daughter of Loyda Rodríguez. &#8220;A Guatemalan official says the U.S. government has said it won’t return a girl adopted after being snatched from her Guatemalan mother in 2006, because the two countries had not signed the Hague Abduction Convention at the time. Guatemala’s Foreign Relations Ministry quotes the U.S. State Department as saying the two countries formally ratified the convention on Jan. 1, 2008, more than a year after toddler Anyeli Hernandez Rodriguez was snatched in November 2006.&#8221; Read the full piece in Spanish here: http://elperiodico.com.gt/es/20120514/elmundo/212169/ The shortened English version is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/guatemala-us-govt-says-it-wont-return-adopted-girl-who-was-snatched-from-guatemalan-mother/2012/05/14/gIQA1CCoPU_story.html]]></description>
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		<title>5/14/2012: &#8220;EE.UU. no devolverá a niña guatemalteca adoptada irregularmente,&#8221; ElPeriódico</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/05/5142012-ee-uu-no-devolvera-a-nina-guatemalteca-adoptada-irregularmente-elperiodico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clip Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anyeli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anyelí Liseth Hernández Rodríguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guatemalan adoption fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Genser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Monahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Abigail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Monahan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kidnapped children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loyda rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perseus Strategies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Monahan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a bit of breaking news in the Karen Abigail case this afternoon. The article says this: According to Celeste Alvarado, spokesperson for Guatemala&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Relations, the United States has informed Guatemala that the Monahans will not be returning &#8220;Karen Abigail,&#8221; also known as Anyelí Rodríguez, the stolen daughter of Loyda Rodríguez. &#8220;Un funcionario guatemalteco que el gobierno de Estados Unidos ha dicho que no devolverá a una niña que fue adoptada después de que fue arrebatada de su madre en Guatemala en 2006, debido a que ambos países no habían firmado para entonces la Convención de La Haya contra sustracción. El ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala citó al Departamento de Estado norteamericano diciendo que los dos países ratificaron formalmente la Convención el 1 de enero de 2008, más de un año después que la niña Anyeli Lisethe Hernández Rodríguez fue secuestrada, en noviembre de 2006.&#8221; Read the full piece here: http://elperiodico.com.gt/es/20120514/elmundo/212169/ A shortened English version is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/guatemala-us-govt-says-it-wont-return-adopted-girl-who-was-snatched-from-guatemalan-mother/2012/05/14/gIQA1CCoPU_story.html]]></description>
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		<title>5/12/2012: &#8220;International adoptions drop amid fraud crackdowns,&#8221; Associated Press</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/05/5122012-international-adoptions-drop-amid-fraud-crackdowns-associated-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 02:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adopting from abroad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new AP piece on the trend of a decrease in international adoptions: &#8220;The number of international adoptions has fallen to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place more children with domestic families. Globally, the number of orphans being adopted by foreign parents dropped from a high of 45,000 in 2004 to an estimated 25,000 last year, according to annual statistics compiled by Peter Selman, an expert on international adoptions at Britain&#8217;s Newcastle University.&#8221; Read the full article here: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/International-adoptions-drop-amid-fraud-crackdowns-3547536.php#ixzz1utxJsbIM&#8220;]]></description>
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		<title>5/11/2012: &#8220;The Stolen Makeni Children,&#8221; Slate</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/05/5112012-the-stolen-makeni-children-slate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 03:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adoption from Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption from Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EJ Graff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Makeni children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[E.J. Graff has a new piece in Slate.com, continuing her coverage of the Makeni children. Her previous 3-part investigation can be read by clicking here. &#8220;Were Samuel Mosley and Adama K. stolen from their birth families in Makeni, Sierra Leone so that Americans could adopt them—and so that greedy middlemen masquerading as child welfare workers could get paid? That question was at the heart of the series published here last August, The Makeni Children, which investigated the torturously complex stories of 29 adoptions in 1998 from Sierra Leone to the United States. Birth families from Makeni had agitated for more than a dozen years, insisting that their children had been wrongfully taken. But the child welfare organization that had taken those children, HANCI (Help a Needy Child International), insisted that the families were lying—that in the midst of the brutal civil war, they had knowingly and willingly given their children away.&#8221; Read the full piece: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/05/sierra_leone_adoptees_were_found_to_be_kidnapped_.html]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico Adoption Bust Reveals Vast Child Trafficking Ring</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/05/mexico-adoption-bust-reveals-vast-child-trafficking-ring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 01:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" a list with a publicly accessible archives dating back to 1999]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" alleging that López had refused to return her daughters after she changed her mind. Additionally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" or since 1981. A History of Child-Buying and Trafficking Allegations This is not the first time López has been involved in an adoption scandal. In 2003]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" which followed two Mexican sisters who had been adopted to different American families. The adoption had been arranged by Carlos López. The girls' birth mother claimed she had been "forced to give t]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" which would mean since the mid-1970's.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A child trafficking ring uncovered by Mexican police in mid-January in Guadalajara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a decade earlier than previously reported]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[according to posts signed by Lopez on internet adoption websites and message boards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[after 21-year-old Laura Talamantes Fabiola Carranza was detained by police in Guadalajara. She was accused of allegedly trying to sell her two-year-old son. This led to the arrest of nine other people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[an associate of Lopez posted to the list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and at least one of the mothers was functionally illiterate. Other news reports allege that some birth mothers were paid $188 per week to carry their pregancies to term and then relinquish their child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and business solicitations. His firm was sometimes also referred to as "López Castellanos Asociados." After the terrorist attacks of 9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and that approximately sixty Mexican children have been adopted to Ireland since 2004. Lawyer Carlos Montoya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asking adoptive parents to email photos to him so that fifty worried Mexican birth mothers would know that their children were all right. The post said that López has been working adoptions for "25 ye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belen Zapata of CNN Mexico recently reported]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[but has also provided hundreds of children to adoptive families in other countries. The story began unraveling on January 9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Lopez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[claims he "handled over 260 adoptions for Couples of New York area during the past 21 years [sic]]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dated August 2001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends And Families Of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[has not only operated since the 1980's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international adoption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Stahl and the CBS TV news magazine 48 Hours produced a story called "Twist of Fate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[López & López Associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[López and three other women were detained on charges of human trafficking stemming from attempts to purchase as-yet unborn children from pregnant women at the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara. At the tim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[López posted to a group of almost 200 people with adoption advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[López told authorities he was a representative of the Association of Adoptive Parents of New York. Indeed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexico-jalisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noting that 18 cases of Mexican-Irish adoption are currently under investigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organized crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poems about orphans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[records for her daughters had been manufactured. López said he'd done nothing wrong. In 1990]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reported by the Mexican press to be a former state prosecutor. The firm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reporting on how seven of the children's mothers said they believed they had been allowing their children to be photographed for anti-abortion advertising campaigns. Some of the babies had no birth ce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodríguez reported]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[she said]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speaking on behalf of the Irish families ensnared in the scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the affiliation between López and American adoptive parents has a long history. As a founding member of the Yahoo email list "Friends and Families of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Irish Examiner and other publications covered the story extensively]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[they were subsequently offered as adoptable orphans to Irish families. The Irish Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[told the Examiner that there were no suspicions of wrongdoing on the part of the adoptive families. Guadalajara-based attorney Carlos López Valenzuela is one of the people allegedly at the center of t]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[was "exclusively devoted" to private Mexican adoptions and boasted of "an outstanding track record in delivering healthy children." One of his posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[was operated by both López and his son]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; A child trafficking ring uncovered by Mexican police in mid-January in Guadalajara, Jalisco, has not only operated since the 1980&#8242;s, a decade earlier than previously reported, but has also provided hundreds of children to adoptive families in other countries. The story began unraveling on January 9, 2012, after 21-year-old Laura Talamantes Fabiola Carranza was detained by police in Guadalajara. She was accused of allegedly trying to sell her two-year-old son. This led to the arrest of nine other people who were said to be participating in the same baby trafficking ring. Associated Press writer Olga Rodríguez followed the story closely, reporting on how seven of the children&#8217;s mothers said they believed they had been allowing their children to be photographed for anti-abortion advertising campaigns. Some of the babies had no birth certificates, Rodríguez reported, and at least one of the mothers was functionally illiterate. Other news reports allege that some birth mothers were paid $188 per week to carry their pregancies to term and then relinquish their children for adoption. After these particular children had been fraudulently separated from their mothers, they were subsequently offered as adoptable orphans to Irish families. The Irish Times, the Irish Examiner and other publications covered the story extensively, noting that 18... ]]></description>
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		<title>5/8/2012: &#8220;Sierra Leone parents support adoption inquiry,&#8221; Associated Press</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/05/582012-sierra-leone-parents-support-adoption-inquiry-associated-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 23:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Associated Press article by Clarence Roy-Macauley: &#8220;Parents in Sierra Leone who claim their children were adopted without their permission in the late 90s said they support the government&#8217;s decision to order a police investigation that could lead to criminal charges. In a statement read by coordinator Abu Bakarr Kargbo, the parents of the 29 children also called on the police and government to look into whether more children were adopted without proper consent.&#8221; Read the full story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/08/international/i042032D79.DTL ]]></description>
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		<title>4/29/2012: &#8220;NGO&#8217;s ask Supreme Court to ban intercountry adoption,&#8221; The Indian Express</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/04/4292012-ngos-ask-supreme-court-to-ban-intercountry-adoption-the-indian-express/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece by Mayura Janwalkar in the April 29, 2012 edition of the Indian Express details a request to ban intercountry adoption. Read the full piece here: http://epaper.indianexpress.com/35580/Indian-Express-Pune/30-April-2012#page/3/2]]></description>
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		<title>4/15/2012: &#8220;¿Adopción Legal?&#8221; Noticias Caracol</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next part in the Noticias Caracol series examining international adoption in Colombia: &#8220;Conozca la historia de Steven, un niño adoptado por holandeses y que según sus padres biológicos, residentes en Colombia, se hizo sin su consentimiento.&#8221;(Discover the story of Steven, a child whose biological Colombian parents say they did not consent to his adoption by Dutch citizens. Link to story: http://www.noticiascaracol.com/informativos/septimodia/video-262884-adopcion-legal?pid=0]]></description>
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		<title>4/13/2012: &#8220;Baby trafficking bazaar unearthed in Uttar Pradesh, India,&#8221; FirstPost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from a new video story by FirstPost.com staff: &#8220;In a shocking story of child trafficking and exploitation of the poor, a sting operation carried out by CNN-IBN and Cobrapost, has uncovered a “baby bazaar” in a government hospital in UP, where babies were being stolen from poor parents and sold to the highest bidder. And everyone – from doctors to nurses to midwives and even child welfare authorities seem to be involved.&#8221; Read the full article here: http://www.firstpost.com/india/baby-trafficking-bazaar-unearthed-in-up-274650.html]]></description>
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		<title>4/12/2012: &#8220;Indiana couple pleads guilty in baby-trafficking case,&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in Indiana&#8217;s Bluefield Daily Telegraph details a foiled attempt to purchase an American baby: &#8220;An Indiana couple has pleaded guilty to arranging to buy a 4-month-old baby from the child&#8217;s natural parents for $13,000 and drugs. Stephen P. Lynch, 32, and his wife, Melissa Lynch, 35, of Kokomo, Ind., admitted their involvement in the baby-selling scheme Wednesday as part of a plea-bargain arrangement.&#8221; Read the full article here: http://bdtonline.com/cnhi/x1789086639/Indiana-couple-pleads-guilty-in-baby-trafficking-case]]></description>
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		<title>4/12/2012: &#8220;Guatemala acuerda agilizar adopciones pedidas,&#8221; Prensa Libre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AP and Guatemala&#8217;s Prensa Libre report that Guatemalan President Pérez Molina has agreed to accelerate the pending transition adoption cases, some of which have been &#8220;in process&#8221; since 2007.  &#8221;La senadora Mary Landrieu y yo nos reunimos con la procuraduría de derechos humanos y esperamos resolver los 350 casos que se habían aprobado antes de la nueva ley&#8221;, dijo el presidente Otto Pérez Molina durante una conferencia de prensa. Hay 428 niños guatemaltecos por quienes familias estadounidenses habían iniciado gestiones antes de la nueva ley del 2007, que implementó el Consejo Nacional de Adopciones como entidad que centraliza todos los trámites.&#8221; Read the full article: http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/politica/Guatemala-promete-adopciones-pedidas-estadounidenses_0_680932004.html]]></description>
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		<title>4/12/2012: &#8220;Nun refuses to testify in Spain’s stolen babies scandal,&#8221; World News</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/04/4122012-nun-refuses-to-testify-in-spain%e2%80%99s-stolen-babies-scandal-world-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from a new piece on the Spanish baby-trafficking scandal: &#8220;An elderly Spanish nun appeared in court on Thursday to face charges of stealing babies, after claims by hundreds of women that their infants were taken from them at birth and given away in illegal adoptions. Doctors, nurses and religious workers at several clinics and hospitals in Spain are alleged to have sold babies for adoption over decades, after telling new mothers that their infants had died.&#8221; Read the full article: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1160185&#8211;nun-refuses-to-testify-in-spain-s-stolen-babies-scandal]]></description>
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		<title>4/8/2012: &#8220;La Otra Cara de la Adopción,&#8221; Noticias Caracol (video)</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/04/482012-la-otra-cara-de-la-adopcion-noticias-caracol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first of a two-part series on adoption in Colombia, by journalist María Lucía Fernández: &#8220;Son miles los extranjeros que llegan a Colombia para adoptar niños. “Séptimo día” investigó y encontró los errores que a menudo se cometen en estos procesos.&#8221; (There are thousands of foreigners who arrive in Colombia to adopt children. &#8220;Seventh Day&#8221; invetsigates and finds the errors they commit in this process.) The link to the full piece is here: http://www.noticiascaracol.com/informativos/septimodia/video-262202-la-otra-cara-de-la-adopcion]]></description>
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		<title>4/4/2012: &#8220;Niños &#8216;made in Colombia,&#8217;&#8221; Noticias Caracol</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/04/492012-ninos-made-in-colombia-noticias-caracol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new video clip describes adoption corruption in Colombia, widely known in the US as having a &#8220;clean&#8221; adoption industry. &#8220;Este especial revelará cómo algunas familias son despojadas de sus hijos, que luego son dados en adopción a extranjeros.&#8221; (This special reveals how some families are separated from their children, who later are given in adoption to foreigners.) Link to full article: http://www.noticiascaracol.com/informativos/septimodia/video-261949-ninos-made-in-colombia]]></description>
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		<title>3/21/2012: &#8220;How A Heavily-Pregnant Hostage Smashed A Greek Baby-Trafficking Ring,&#8221; Global Post</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/03/3212012-how-a-heavily-pregnant-hostage-smashed-a-greek-baby-trafficking-ring-global-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new piece by Amy Silverstein for Global Post. An excerpt: One woman got kidnapped, escaped the kidnappers and then helped police bust a baby trafficking ring, all while she was in her third trimester of pregnancy. The 31-year-old woman came from Bulgaria to Greece during her eighth month of pregnancy, Athens News reported. Read the full piece here: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/pregnant-woman-helps-bust-baby-trafficking-ring-greece-0#ixzz1pryocNa4]]></description>
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		<title>3/15/2012: &#8220;‘These women didn’t know their options’: Ontario urged to consider inquiry into coerced adoptions,&#8221; The National Post</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/03/3152012-%e2%80%98these-women-didn%e2%80%99t-know-their-options%e2%80%99-ontario-urged-to-consider-inquiry-into-coerced-adoptions-the-national-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada&#8217;s The National Post has an article today by Kathryn Blaze Carlson, which examines coerced adoptions in Ontario, Canada. An excerpt: &#8220;Ontario’s NDP urged the Dalton McGuinty government Wednesday to look at launching an inquiry into the province’s historic adoption practices in the wake of accusations from women who say they were coerced by social agencies, medical workers and churches into giving up their children. “I would urge the Minister of Children and Youth Services in Ontario to give serious consideration to calls for an inquiry, and to listen carefully to the views of groups representing those who have been affected by these practices in maternity homes and elsewhere,” Monique Taylor, the Ontario NDP’s critic for children and youth services, said in a statement&#8230;&#8221; Read the full piece here: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/03/15/coerced-adoptions/]]></description>
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		<title>3/11/2012: &#8220;&#8216;Evil&#8217; Kiwi sold white designer children,&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporter Phil Vine from New Zealand media outlet TV New Zealand with a more detailed story on the New Zealand woman who was selling &#8220;designer&#8221; babies to American couples: &#8220;Selling genetically engineered designer babies ended with a jail term for a New Zealand woman. TVNZ reporter Phil Vine reports from San Diego. An empty Starbucks cup in one hand, a picture of her dead baby in the other, Kim waits outside the Federal Courthouse in San Diego. She is watching out for New Zealander Carla Chambers&#8230;&#8221; Click here to read the full piece: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/6555640/Evil-Kiwi-sold-white-designer-children]]></description>
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		<title>3/11/2012: &#8220;Woman sentenced in SoCal baby scam,&#8221; UPI</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece on the UPI newswire talks about the sentencing of a New Zealand woman by a San Diego judge for involvement in an illegal surrogacy ring that created and sold white babies to American parents: SAN DIEGO, March 11 (UPI) &#8211; A U.S. judge sentenced a New Zealand national to prison for her role in a baby trafficking ring that peddled the unborn children of surrogate mothers. Carla Chambers, 52, was convicted in San Diego federal court of recruiting surrogate moms in the United States and then selling the parental rights to new parents through an adoption attorney. Read the full piece here: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/03/11/Woman-sentenced-in-SoCal-baby-scam/UPI-30101331477618/?spt=hs&#38;or=tn]]></description>
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		<title>3/7/2012: &#8220;Tenn. Mom Who Sent Boy to Russia Must Pay Support,&#8221; ABC News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new development in the case of the Tennessee woman who placed her adopted Russian son on a plane back to Russia with a note in his backpack: she&#8217;s been sentenced to pay child support. ABC News picked up the story from Associated Press reporter Kristin M. Hall: A judge in Tennessee has ruled that an American woman must pay child support for the adopted son she sent back to Russia. Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell approved a motion on Wednesday for default judgment against Torry Hansen, who has repeatedly failed to appear in court and at depositions. Read the full piece here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tenn-mom-boy-russia-pay-support-15871109#.T15E_hyjyyY]]></description>
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		<title>3/7/2012: &#8220;One baby abandoned every month in Depok,&#8221; The Jakarta Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article today in The Jakarta Post focuses on abandoned and trafficked babies. &#8220;The Depok Social and Manpower Agency said that at least one baby was abandoned every month in Depok, West Java. The agency reported 11 babies were abandoned in 2011, up from five babies in 2010. The agency also said that thus far in 2012, four babies had been abandoned and were currently being cared for by the Bina Remaja Mandiri orphanage on Jl. Juanda, Depok&#8230;&#8221; Read the full post here: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/03/07/one-baby-abandoned-every-month-depok.html]]></description>
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		<title>2/26/2012: &#8220;Child smuggling: British couple face trafficking charges,&#8221; The Express Tribune</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/02/2262012-child-smuggling-british-couple-face-trafficking-charges-the-express-tribune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new piece by Shabbir Mir in Pakistan&#8217;s English-language newspaper The Express Tribune called &#8220;Child smuggling: British couple face trafficking charges&#8221; details a Pakistani-British couple&#8217;s possible involvement in a smuggling-for-adoption ring. &#8220;A Pakistani-British couple arrested in Gilgit Airport for allegedly attempting to smuggle an infant out of the country, may be charged with human trafficking, according to official sources on Saturday. The couple, Hafeez Rajab Ali and Arsh Noor, who are British citizens were arrested at the Gilgit airport when they were about to board an airplane for Islamabad. They had arrived in Gilgit a week ago to adopt an orphan and were staying at a hotel. Their arrest lead intelligence agencies to a chain believed to have links with an offshore child-smuggling ring.&#8221; Read the full piece here: http://tribune.com.pk/story/341818/child-smuggling-british-couple-face-trafficking-charges/]]></description>
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		<title>2/26/2012: &#8220;Perfect baby for sale $150K: Calif attorney convicted for baby trafficking ring,&#8221; The Examiner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheExaminer.com has a piece by Holly Craw looking at the Theresa Erickson surrogacy scandal, trial, and recent conviction: &#8220;Human trafficking takes many forms, and manufacturing babies brings the industry to a new realm.  Theresa Erickson, an adoption and surrogacy lawyer from California was convicted in San Diego February 22 for conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to filing of false court documents for surrogate birth arrangements.  She is subject to sentencing of five years in federal prison and fines up to $250,000 after pleading guilty to the charge&#8230;.&#8221; Read the full story here: http://www.examiner.com/sex-trafficking-in-national/perfect-baby-for-sale-150k-calif-attorney-convicted-for-baby-trafficking-ring]]></description>
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		<title>2/25/2012: &#8220;Adoption racket: Illegal surrogacy angle probed,&#8221; Hindustan Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece called &#8220;Adoption racket: Illegal surrogacy angle probed&#8221; by Kiran Sonawane in the Hindustan Times details a surrogacy and child-selling racket in India: &#8220;The police investigating the Ulhasnagar child-selling racket said they suspected that the main accused in the case, Vijaya Sonawane and Ratna Obale, were also running an illegal surrogacy racket. Narendra Jadhav, inspector, Hill Line police station, said they were investigating all angles. Jadhav said the police were the complainants in the case and had filed an offence against Sonawane, 47, Obale, 35, Pradhan Kanojia, 40, and Babli Kanojia, 35. All four were arrested on Thursday evening. The Ulhasnagar court has, however, refused to accept the police plea and has granted bail to all four accused. The investigating officer in the case said the police had requested for seven days custody in order to investigate and dig out more details in the child-selling and surrogacy racket.&#8221; Read the whole piece here: http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Adoption-racket-Illegal-surrogacy-angle-probed/Article1-816736.aspx#.T0gKYmRQNeA.email]]></description>
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		<title>2/22/2012: &#8220;Former nurse on trial for baby trafficking in Vietnam,&#8221; Thanh Nien Daily</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/02/2222012-former-nurse-on-trial-for-baby-trafficking-in-vietnam-thanh-nien-daily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Hanoi People’s Court Tuesday opened the trial of a former nurse at the Vietnam National Ob-gyn Hospital who used her position to run a baby trafficking ring. Nguyen Thi Kim Chi told the court that she had noticed many women having unexpected and unwanted pregnancies while sterile couples pined for children, so she thought of connecting the two, the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.&#8221; Read the full story here: http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/pages/20120222-vietnam-former-nurse-brought-to-court-for-trafficking-babies.aspx]]></description>
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		<title>2/21/2012: &#8220;Investigan adopción irregular,&#8221; Prensa Libre</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/02/2212012-investigan-adopcion-irregular-prensa-libre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece by Coralia Ornates from Guatemala&#8217;s La Prensa Libre: &#8220;El proceso, identificado como MP001-2012-20038, señala a Dominga Liseth Ordóñez Sáenz y a Sandra Éricka Jovel Polanco de falsedad material y uso de documentos falsificados. Según Sara Payes, de la Procuraduría de la Niñez, el caso se inició en el 2010 cuando la madre de un menor lo abandonó en un sanatorio. El 24 de julio del 2010, un juez de Paz le dictó el abrigo como madre sustituta a Sandra Jovel, pero tres días después le fue revocado por un juez de Primera Instancia&#8230;&#8221; Read the full piece here: http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/Investigan-adopcion-irregular_0_650335002.html &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>2/7/2012: &#8220;Laos probes sale of babies to Australians,&#8221; &#8220;Baby trafficking probe,&#8221; Sydney Morning Herald, Herald Sun</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/02/272012-baby-trafficking-probe-sydney-morning-herald/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sydney Morning Herald and the Herald Sun of Australia are reporting that Laos has halted all international adoptions pending the results of an ongoing  baby-trafficking for adoption investigation. From the Herald: &#8220;Laos is investigating a retired justice ministry official for allegedly selling adopted babies to Australians, Americans and Canadians. The official is accused of seeking out unwanted babies in poor rural areas, obtaining adoption papers and selling the infants to foreigners for up to $US5000 each, according to a Radio Free Asia report&#8230;.&#8221; Full link to the Morning Herald story: http://www.smh.com.au/world/baby-trafficking-probe-20120206-1r25x.html The Herald Sun story: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/laos-probes-sale-of-babies-to-australians/story-e6frf7jx-1226264078692 &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>2/1/2012: &#8220;Adoption Battle Over 5-Year Old Boy Pits Missouri Couple Vs. Illegal Immigrant,&#8221; ABC News</title>
		<link>http://findingfernanda.com/2012/02/212012-adoption-battle-over-5-year-old-boy-pits-missouri-couple-vs-illegal-immigrant-abc-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, ABC news aired a piece by Lauren Gilger, Brian Ross, and ANgela M. Hill that shows a different side of an adoption struggle: the American adoptions of children taken from non-citizen immigrants. An excerpt: &#8220;A tug-of-war over a five-year-old boy is at the center of a national debate over parental rights and immigration, and a sign of what critics say is a growing trend in which immigrants are being deemed unfit parents because they crossed the border illegally. Seth and Melinda Moser of Carthage, Missouri say the boy they call Jamison is their son, and that returning him to his birth mother after five years will cause him untold harm. &#8220;I could not love him more, had he come out of me physically,&#8221; Melinda Moser said in an interview with a Missouri television station. &#8220;I can only imagine the trauma that he would go through in feeling like people that did love him have betrayed him, you know?&#8221; His birth mother, Encarnacion Bail Romero, says Carlos was taken from her against her will while she was in federal custody for an immigration-related crime, and hopes to regain custody in a trial that starts later this month. &#8220;I&#8217;m his mother,... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Siegal</dc:creator>
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