Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Chinese babies 'confiscated for overseas adoption'

 under the country's one-child-per-family policy and put up for international adoption. 
 Chinese media say family planning officials in Hunan province 
took the children from poor homes unable to pay fines for having more than one child.
 The children were allegedly listed as orphans and adopted by foreigners 
for fees of about $3,000 (£1,800) each.
 Xinhua news agency said some were now in the US, the Netherlands and Poland.

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