March 12, 2009

A father and mother in India claim their child was kidnapped and put up for adoption. Journalist Scott Carney investigated and found the child living with a family in the US. Carney, whose reporting is presented in Mother Jones magazine, tells us this case may be the tip of the iceberg.

We also hear from David Smolin, who is featured in the Mother Jones story because he adopted children from India who were not orphans. Their mother was tricked into giving up her rights to the two girls. Eventually they told David and his wife they were not orphans. So the Smolins traveled to India and found the girls’ parents. Now Smolin, who teaches law at Samford University in Alabama, is an advocate for adoption reform.

[in the audio, Scott Carney identifies the placing agency as Pauquette Adoption Services of Portage WI]