Guatemala: Fifteen adoption cases voided

Guatemalan authorities annulled fifteen adoption cases due to suspicions of fraud or similar problems. Officials have not ruled out that more cases could be voided after a government measure earlier this month placed all potential adoptions on hiatus.

Nearly 5000 Guatemalan children were adopted by couples in the U.S. in 2006, making Guatemala the second largest source of children adopted in the U.S. Nevertheless, hundreds of prospective parents in the U.S. worry that that the adoption process from them will never be renewed:

Sienna's crib waits for her, but Jacki and her husband, who also have a two-year-old daughter named Isabella, said they fear the child may never get to use it.

"We've held her," Jacki said. "We've bonded with her. She is our daughter."

Sources - The Latin Americanist, BBC News, MSNBC, WFAA

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