Vietnam - My Linh Soland aka My-Linh Duong Soland case

Incident date: 2006 Jul 11

Country: Vietnam

number of children involved: 150

placement

Persons:

Organizations: Irish Adoption Board, Ireland, Helping Hands, Ireland

facilitation

Persons: My Linh Soland, Vu Thi Tanh Binh

Organizations:

institution

Persons:

Organizations: Hung Yen orphanage, Vung Tau orphanage

My Linh Soland facilitated Vietnam adoptions to Ireland by systematically forging documents and encouraging wrongful removal and theft of children. My Linh Soland also may have worked with US and French families. The Irish Adoption Board replaced My Linh Soland with Vu Thi Tanh Binh, her primary employee.

Parent topics: child trafficking

Documents

Title	Publication date
Silence greets exposure of corrupt adoption practices	2006 Jul 29
Vietnamese adoptions under way 'not illegal'	2006 Jul 28
Vietnamese adoptions under way 'not illegal'	2006 Jul 28
New fears over Vietnam adoptions	2006 Jul 24
Adoption chief used Vietnam fraudster as a tour guide	2006 Jul 11
We Irish play an essential role in illegal trafficking in babies	2006 Jul 10
'We nicknamed her DR EVIL but no-one dared challenge her because we were afraid we would not get our babies'	2006 Jul 8
'Evil' adoption scandal	2006 Jul 8
Irish agency severs ties with Soland	2006 Jul 8
Babies adopted through fraudster 'won't be returned'	2006 Jun 22
Foreign adoptions: latest form of human traffic?	2006 Jun 20
Vietnamese adoption agent was jailed in US for fraud	2006 Jun 20
BOGUS PAPERS CUTTING HOLES IN U.S. BORDERS	1995 Nov 25
FALLS CHURCH LAWYER IS SENTENCED FOR IMMIGRATION FRAUD	1995 Sep 9
STATE BAR SUSPENDS LAWYER'S LICENSE; SHE ADMITS ARRANGING MARRIAGES TO HELP IMMIGRANTS REMAIN IN U.S.	1995 Aug 3
FALLS CHURCH LAWYER GUILTY OF ARRANGING SHAM MARRIAGES	1995 Jun 14
IN FAIRFAX, EVEN MARRIAGE COSTS TOO MUCH; CIVIL CELEBRANTS' FEES OFTEN ABOVE LIMIT	1992 Mar 3
COLUMNIST, WIFE SLAIN IN FAIRFAX; VIETNAMESE WRITER IS 2ND ON STAFF TO DIE	1990 Sep 24