Official's Adoption-for-Cash Scheme Took Babies from Poor Sonoran Mothers Mark Stevenson - The Associated Press
go to original August 29, 2015

A young mother looks at her one-month-old baby girl at her work in a market of the Romero Rubio suburb in Mexico City. (Yuri Cortez/AFP)

A child welfare official in northern Mexico took at least nine babies from poor or drug-addicted mothers and offered them to adoptive parents in exchange for payments ranging from $5,000 to $9,000, authorities said Friday.

Raul Ramirez, the head of the government human rights commission in the border state of Sonora, said the scheme apparently went on for years and may involve many more children.

“They searched for vulnerable mothers, poor people or those who had problems of drug addiction, and took away their babies and offered them in adoption in return for money.”

Three of the babies have been identified and recovered, but Ramirez said “there may be many more, from years back, and some of these children could be 20 years old by now.”

The problem, he noted is that “the children have developed affection for their (adoptive) parents, and now they’re crying for their parents.”

All the children were apparently adopted by Mexican couples.

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