‘Internet’ Twins Back in U.S., Officials Say
Twin baby girls at the center of a transatlantic Internet adoption scandal have been returned to their native Missouri, British officials said.
The 9-month-old sisters were sold for adoption twice over the Internet by their biological mother--first to an American couple, Richard and Vickie Allen of Highland in San Bernardino County, and then to Welsh couple Alan and Judith Kilshaw, who took them to Britain in January.
Last week, a British judge ruled that the children must be returned to Missouri for a court resolution.
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