Colombian state 'kidnaps' children for overseas adoption: Reports .

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Colombian state 'kidnaps' children for overseas adoption: Reports .
Monday, 16 April 2012 11:07
Arron Daugherty

Colombia's Family Welfare Institute "kidnaps" Colombian children by giving them up for adoption to foreign families against the will of their biological parents, several reports said.

In a program aired Sunday, television station Caracol told the story of a young boy named Steven who was born in Colombia but adopted by a Dutch family.

Steven's biological parents said he was taken from them against their will by the ICBF. The agency said Steven's original parents were unfit to care for him and that the state put the child up for adoption for his own safety. Colombia is one of the few countries where children can be placed with foreign families without the consent of their biological parents.

This is not the first time the ICBF has been accused of unjustifiably taking children from parents and sending them abroad. Colombian channel RCN TV and Colombian newspaper El Tiempo have run similar stories in the past.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/23449-colombian-children-kidnapped-by-state-for-overseas-adoption-caracol.html

[freshwest]

1. In the Great Depression, the same thing was done here. Money respects no one.

[Odin2005]

2. Colombian government = US-backed fascists.