NATIONAL ADOPTION MONTH NEW BOOK EXPOSES CHILD TRAFFICKING, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN ADOPTION

Investigative journalist and adoption expert Erin Siegal uncovers multiple human rights violations and organized crimeNEW YORK, NY (November 15, 2011)—For the first time, the extent of fraud, corruption, and child trafficking in international adoption between Guatemala and the United States has been credibly determined. Thousands of previously-unreleased government documents obtained by investigative journalist Erin Siegal from the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala paint a vivid picture of what, exactly, the U.S. government knew about criminal wrongdoing in adoption, including kidnapping, orphan "