Cases

Joao Herbert was born in Brazil and spent much of his early childhood as an orphan on the streets of Sao Paolo. He was adopted by an Ohio couple at the age of eight. When he was seventeen, his parents discovered that he had not automatically become a U.S. citizen upon his adoption, and submitted a naturalization application. However, Herbert turned eighteen before the processing of the application was complete. Soon after his eighteenth birthday, he pleaded guilty to attempting to sell marijuana and was sentenced to probation and participation in a drug treatment program. Despite the fact that he was a first-time offender who had served no jail time, he was placed in immigration detention for twenty months and then deported to Brazil as an “aggravated felon.” Herbert had no friends or family in Brazil and no longer spoke any Portuguese. Once in Brazil, he began teaching English and became known as "the English professor." His father, who is quadriplegic, was unable to travel to Brazil to visit him. In May of 2004, Herbert was shot and killed in the industrial city of Campinas, 60 miles northwest of Sao Paolo.

Status: Deported, and murdered

Four children between 3 and 9 being beaten with boards, locked in a basement without food and doused with cold water as punishment.

Nine-year-old girl was sexually abused by her adoptive father David Karl Danser. He took sexually explicit photographs of her which he shared with a ring of child pornographers in the Bloomington, Indiana area, further consisting of Pirie Scott Cleveland, Charles Poole and Bill Platz. The arrest of these four eventually lead to the arrest of Eric Franklin Rosser, who became one of ten America's most wanted fugitive criminals.

David Karl Danser was convicted and sentenced to 370 months imprisonment and was ordered to pay his adoptive daughter restitution in the amount of $309,549.36. He currently stays at the Federal Correctional Institute in Petersburg, Virginia and is scheduled for release in 2025.

 

Subash was stolen, transferred to an orphanage, had his name changed to Ashraf and was placed with US parents on the shores of Lake Michigan

Larisa and Oleg Dushko were told their child died after birth. Larisa's father was concerned that a handicapped child would ruin his name, so he had the child declared dead and transferred to a Baby Home in Stavropol where she was adopted.

  Renuka with photos of her siblings in Italy
Preet Mandir refuses to return children to birth families, makes donation demands of PAPs, violates CARA rules, and takes poor care of children. See individual cases:
Ashwini and Komal, Satara case

China has extensive child trafficking problems. Young children are stolen, boys often for heirs, and girls for daughter in laws or adoption. Older children can end up as laborers or in the sex trade. Young children are sold for $3-4,000. Police do not often investigate, even when there is video evidence of the abduction.
At least two orphanages admit they buy children and claim it is legal. It is reasonable to assume that there are more orphanages buying children from the trafficking networks.
Babies are trafficked from Myanmar to China for adoption.

See also: Cambodian and Vietnamese infants trafficked to China

9-year-old girl, adopted by Peter and Denise Thomas, was put up for sale by her adoptive parents.

Milena Slatten adopted from Republic of Georgia suffered abuse by both adoptive parents Christopher Slatten and Elizabeth "Beth" (Slatten) Plumley. Christopher Slatten was charged and acquitted.