The Nation : Adoption Fraud Charged
Five members of an international adoption ring have been charged with bilking more than 200 prospective parents in 40 states out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with the promise of children from Mexico, federal authorities said in Salt Lake City. U.S. Atty. Brent Ward said that the multicount indictments were secretly handed up by grand juries in Boston and Salt Lake City. The nationwide investigation found evidence that the victims--most of them residents of Utah and Massachusetts--paid between $300 and $6,000 each between 1978 and 1983 on the promise of getting Mexican children for adoption, the indictments allege.
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