Jan. 13--Agency dangerous, state says Florida child-welfare officials are trying to revoke the license of International Adoption Resource Inc., saying the Coral Springs adoption agency constitutes an "immediate danger" to the safety of children.

The Department of Children & Families suspended the agency's license in December. The revocation is a more-severe step that would prohibit the agency's executive director, Rebecca Thurmond, from working in Florida for two years as a child care placement agent.

In an administrative complaint, DCF said nine babies found at a Costa Rican home leased by the adoption agency's director were alleged to have been "kidnapped from their ...