Guatemalan prosecutors said Wednesday that they will conduct a legal review of all of the country’s pending adoptions, after an initial investigation turned up irregularities.
The Attorney General’s Office said that 2,286 case files will be re-examined. The vast majority of prospective adoptive parents are U.S. couples.
An investigation of Casa Quivira adoption agency turned up a slew of irregularities, including at least five cases in which birth mothers allegedly were given false identities to avoid having to seek permission from family members and a judge to give up their babies.
Prosecutors describe the investigation of Casa Quivira, considered one of Guatemala’s best adoption agencies, as their first serious look into a $100 million industry that has made tiny Guatemala the largest source of adopted U.S. babies after China.
The Associated Press
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