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URL:https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/perfect-crime-2021/
SUMMARY:The Perfect Crime: Human Rights Violations &#038\; Child Traffickin
 g in International Adoption Between Guatemala and the United States
DESCRIPTION:When Erin Siegal McIntyre began reporting her book Finding Fern
 anda\, various sources independently referred to the business of adoption 
 between impoverished countries and the United States as “the perfect cri
 me\,” since it can be conducted with little consequence for criminal wro
 ngdoing and negligence. The child involved is usually too young to bear wi
 tness to fraud. The disenfranchised birthmothers\, typically poor\, encoun
 ter insurmountable hurdles when trying to seek help from authorities. Amer
 ican adoptive parents rarely wanted to know unsettling facts about childre
 n they loved and regarded as their own. Fraud and coercion in internationa
 l adoption is a multi-jurisdictional crime that is extremely difficult for
  governments to jointly investigate and prosecute. Because of regulatory l
 apses and vast jurisdictional gaps\, trafficking "adoptable orphans" for p
 rofit has been done with near-total impunity.  \n\nBy 2004\, because of co
 ncerns about child trafficking and fraud\, Canada\, Germany\, Spain\, Fran
 ce\, the Netherlands\, and the United Kingdom had all banned their citizen
 s from adopting children from Guatemala. Yet the U.S. continued\, and by 2
 007\, the American wealth funneled into quasi-covert organized crime netwo
 rks buying and selling children created a human rights crisis in Guatemala
  that was too big to keep ignoring.\n\nThrough the shared experiences of t
 wo women\, working-class Guatemalan single mother Mildred Alvarado and Sou
 thern evangelical housewife Betsy Emanuel\, investigative journalist and j
 ournalism professor Erin Siegal McIntyre weaves a riveting story that reve
 als\, with help from tens of thousands of previously unreleased government
  documents\, just what authorities knew and when—as well as illuminating
  the bravery\, hope\, and heartbreaking consequences.\n\nVimeo video will 
 be live Thursday\, November 11 at 3PM\nClick here for Book talk video
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LOCATION:https://vimeo.com/643658149
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