KAMPALA: Uganda MPs have raised fresh concerns that hundreds of children have left the country through “dubious circumstances” as a result of foreigners working with local lawyers to exploit a loophole in the law, allowing them to be adopted.
Last September, an official report said a boom in Uganda’s “international adoption industry” had led to some children who were not even orphans being taken into care for adoption or child sponsorship schemes.
A parliamentary committee investigating illegal adoptions has now heard that more than 120 children left the East African country last year alone, despite some foreigners being granted adoption orders not …read more
Source: theSun
