Children going back to families
Government and U.N. agencies have begun reuniting the families of children caught up in an adoption row between Chad and France, a Chadian minister said.
Six French aid workers with a charity called Zoe’s Ark had claimed that more than 100 children were orphans from Darfur, Sudan. They tried in October to fly the children to France for adoption, but Chadians working for the charity alerted the police.
In December, a Chadian court found the aid workers guilty of kidnapping and sentenced them to eight years in jail with hard labor. That sentence was commuted to eight years in jail when they were transferred to France under a judicial agreement.
Investigations showed the children were Chadian, not Sudanese, and that most of the children had at least one parent or close adult relative.
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