>Why are the children in Haiti in high demand?

>How are they smuggled out?

>‘Adoption’ process.

>Local ‘staging’ ports friendly to CF?

>>568863

In 2009, the Southern Baptist Convention, the second-largest denomination in the United States, passed a resolution directing all members to consider whether God was calling on them to adopt.

news.sbts.edu/2009/06/25/sbc-messengers-enthusiastically-support-moores-resolution-on-adoption/

In 2010, a year when international adoptions overall fell by 13%, Bethany Christian Services – one of the largest agencies in the U.S., with adoption-related revenues of around $25 million – announced that its placements were up 26% and international placements were up 66% for the first six months.

Bethany Christian Services

www.bethany.org/

… the countries still experiencing adoption booms – among them African nations such as Ethiopia, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – have been the focus of intense missionary activity.

'I think if evangelicals weren’t driving a lot of the adoption business, there would be no international adoption, period.'

So many prospective adoptive families inquired about Haitian 'earthquake orphans' that Bethany Christian Services began diverting applicants to other countries like Ethiopia, which were then undergoing 'adoption booms,' thanks to a combination of poverty and lax laws.

In international adoptions, birth parents were more likely to be erased altogether, as adoption agencies sometimes wrongly claimed that they were dead or dying. … any child of an impoverished parent was viewed as the equivalent of an 'orphan' and was labeled as such.

On rarer occasions, there were stories of how babies were simply bought or kidnapped.

Religious groups like the Southern Baptist Convention, keystone churches like Saddleback, and groups like Focus on the Family and Hope for Orphans implore Christians to adopt. An umbrella coalition, the Christian Alliance for Orphans, helps unite the movement.

Adoptive parents declare themselves 'serial adopters' as orphan fever sweeps through evangelical congregations. Some families adopt as many as five or six new children.

Adoption agencies such as All God’s Children, Bethany Christian Services, and America World Adoption fund humanitarian projects, donate to orphanages, and handle the paperwork.

Foreign governments exercise varying degrees of oversight. Trafficking and corruption have plagued adoptions in places like Ethiopia and Kyrgyzstan, where Christian agencies were implicated in unethical and/or illegal behavior.

Orphanages often cut exclusive deals to supply adoption agencies.

Ministries including the Abba Fund and God's Grace Adoption Ministry direct parents to Christian agencies, host conferences, promote overseas mission trips, and give interest-free loans and grants to adoptive parents.

A prominent leader of the campaign to bring more orphans to American homes is Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who believes some of the major aid organizations active in Haiti — including UNICEF — are not sufficiently supportive of international adoption.

Since the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake, about 1,000 Haitian children have been brought to U.S. families …

>>586451

>Why are the children in Haiti in high demand?

>How are they smuggled out?

>‘Adoption’ process.

>Local ‘staging’ ports friendly to CF?

>>568863

Haiti’s population currently consists of poor youth – 45% of the population is under 15 years of age.

Hundreds of thousands of Haitian children lack birth certificates or other identification …

The now more common use of birth control and abortion in wealthy nations have resulted in a decline in the number of white adoptable babies. Thanks to the laws of supply and demand, the international adoption industry generates six-figure incomes (reported on IRS 990s) for executives of non-profit or even faith-based organizations, as well as untold profits for private companies.

It is a self-regulating system where potential clients pay home study fees either to the very agencies who assess their readiness for adoptive parenthood, or to those that they recommend. It is a world of interconnected advocacy groups, foundations, domestic and international agencies, local orphanages, with legions of social workers, staff, lawyers, notaries, facilitators, and intermediaries of all sorts.

The industry’s political clout at the highest levels of state and national governments allowed for a disregard of Haitian and international law, as children were airlifted by private or military planes to the US and other destinations following the earthquake.

Mounting concern over child trafficking recently led, in Bolivia, to the arrest of adults transporting a group of Haitian youth for forced labor and sexual exploitation, and a number of children are said to have disappeared from Haitian hospitals immediately after the earthquake.

… allegations that Guatemala was being used as a staging ground to abduct children from Central and South America for a pedophile ring. David Ferrie was reportedly flying children into Cuba, Honduras and Guatemala for reasons no one has ever been able to explain (Ferrie claimed he was taking them on "mining" expeditions).

French newspaper Le Monde also reported an ongoing situation of child trafficking along the Haitian-Dominican border, as well as the fast-tracking of adoption procedures, and evacuations of more than 1,000 children through various embassies in Port-au-Prince.

'Most of the children that are trafficked into the Dominican Republic have fallen victims of prostitution or these children are adopted illegally.'

New Life Children's Refuge

newliferefugeministries.org/refuge.html

wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/3741

www.kristv.com/story/30345541/new-life-refuge-building-home-for-child-sex-trafficking-survivors

Every church and mission group has a presence in Haiti

The huge population of vulnerable kids makes them susceptible to abuse, including the trafficking of Haitian children into the sex trade and slavery. … AIDS is epidemic among Haitian youth …

Douglas Perlitz, 39, a pastoral minister and celebrated alumnus of Fairfield University, a Jesuit school, is charged with forcing 18 boys into sexual acts in exchange for food, shelter, money, cell phones, electronic devices, shoes, clothes, and other items, while he ran a boarding school for street children in Cap-Haitien from 1998 to 2008.

Fairfield University

www.fairfield.edu/press/pr_index.html?id=2501

… an expert on Haiti said that child sex abuse there, including the targeting of boys by Roman Catholic priests, 'has a long history from the slavery period to the Roman Catholic educational system through the continued economic and political downward spiral in Haiti.'

>>586454

>>586451

>Why are the children in Haiti in high demand?

>How are they smuggled out?

>‘Adoption’ process.

>Local ‘staging’ ports friendly to CF?

>>568863

While the U.S. State Department has launched initiatives to combat child trafficking, it does not issue specific regulations or guidance for the activities of American missionaries abroad.

In part, that’s because the First Amendment prohibits the government from regulating the internal activities of churches, apart from prosecutions for civil or criminal wrongdoing. Efforts to more tightly regulate U.S. missionaries abroad would likely trigger an outcry from religious groups raising religious freedom concerns.

Illegal intercountry adoption is not considered to be human trafficking.

Getting this issue covered under the U.S. human trafficking statutes has proven difficult. One reason for this is money. Illegal intercountry adoption brings in quite a profit for many adoption agencies in both the U.S. and in sending countries.

… it’s been difficult to garner enough support in the U.S. to modify U.S. law to include 'children bought/taken for the purposes of adoption' in the legal definition for human trafficking.

The Haitian government created a national committee on human trafficking in 2015, but has not committed any resources to allow the committee to function.

'We don't have an office, we don't have employees, we don't have the means to go out in the field and push investigations …'

Anti-Slavery International explained that using religion is a known tactic in human trafficking. 'Using faith to traffic and exploit people in this way follows common patterns of trafficking in general, in that it targets specific vulnerabilities of people to lure them into a situation where it's easy to control them,' said Jakub Sovic, Anti-Slavery's communications director.

In recent decades, South Korea, Romania, Guatemala, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia have banned or cut back on international adoption, often citing cases of child abuse. In January, Ethiopia joined the list, banning all adoptions of Ethiopian-born children by foreigners.

The four main types of child trafficking in Haiti:

1. Kidnapping, or the detention of a child against his will for illicit gain or material benefit.

2. 'Restaveks' (children used in domestic labour; estimates are between 88,000-500,000).

3. The use of orphanages as boarding institutions/businesses for illegal adoption.

4. The movement of children to the Dominican Republic (an estimated 2,000 children annually) or other countries for use in prostitution, illegal adoption or domestic labour.

In 2003, Department of Justice reported the largest concentrations of trafficking survivors who received federal assistance resided in California, Texas, New York and Oklahoma.

While drug trafficking is the largest criminal industry in the world, he said human trafficking has proven so lucrative it is expected to surpass it within three to four years. When the FBI rescued children from forced prostitution in 40 cities around the United States, he said they found an alarming correlation: that nearly every city had exploited children from Oklahoma.

Elam said the FBI's discoveries about human trafficking in Oklahoma have been astounding. Oklahoma cities are on human trafficking routes throughout the Midwest and beyond, including a route from Houston, the No.1 city for human trafficking in America. He said the FBI learned it is well known among truck drivers that if someone wants good barbeque, they should go to Kansas City; if they want to find young girls for exploitation, they should go to Oklahoma City.