Do people really believe cases like this are isolated?

Question

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9uMbg5o3H_nXQwn8Sj6rvt-TtfwD9290VGO0

Or is this just the first BRAVE woman to stand up? Or heaven forbid, the first one who wasn't silenced in some way...

What do you think? Will we be seeing more of this in the future?

Answer 1

I was amazed to find this out too. I did a project on Guatemala for my Spanish class in high school. I quickly got side tracked as I saw all of the warnings of "Do not go out into rural areas by yourself, the villagers will think you are trying to steal their children and may hurt you!" That is when I became interested in adoption because I had always thought that it was a perfect process. I always thought the mother lovingly gave her baby away to childless couple who would take perfect care of it. Now, mostly because of Yahoo! answers, I realize that there is a ton of corruption with adoption agencys and international adoptions. It amazes me that people will actually steal a baby! Weather it is by gunpoint (like that poor mother) or by coercion, it is wrong! Hopefully this will help make DNA test required, and help more women come forward so that they can find their stolen child. Hoepfully... There is A LOT more of this to come. =) Hope this helps.

Answer 2

It's probably a little of both. It's wonderful that she managed to find her without getting killed.

I hope we do see more of it. I'm sick of reading about 'rich' Americans going to other countries to adopt so those kids won't have a hard life. What kind of life do they think kids in the US get when no one wants them? Sure, it may be easier by comparison, but that doesn't change the fact that American children need loving homes too.

Answer 3

Its absolutely not isolated. There are mothers all over Guatemala and other countries that have been speaking up, out and all over but are threatened or forced to shut up and its the a-parents flipping the bill to those criminals doing it to them.

I'm glad to see that they are now beginning to put pressure on the US gov't and a-parents to submit DNA results for the kidnapped children.  I can't imagine any of them being shocked or horrified because they have told by

NGO's for years that this has been going on.  

Those children should be found and returned to their mothers.

Adoption shouldn't be a justification to ignore kidnapping. I think more thorough investigations need to be done on the Ap's to see exactly how much they "REALLY" knew but chose to ignore. There are Ap's that knew something wasn't right and ignored it. They are just as guilty.

Answer 4

Wow. That's amazing. :) Good for her!

Answer 5

I think this is the tip of the iceberg.  It was only a matter of time before one or more mothers would be able to break through and be vindicated.  I've read other articles about her but this one gave some key facts - that she shared a physical quirk that she used to identify her daughter and that the foster mother essentially "dropped the goods and ran" rather than go into hiding with the child.

Other articles tell of her going on a hunger strike with several other mothers of stolen children.

As for DNA tests - there were DNA tests in Esther's file, as there are in the files of countless other children.  How many of these DNA tests were bogus?  Right now it will be up to the mothers of these stolen children to let their stories be known.  But how are the authorities going to get DNA samples from all the potential matching children if they have already been adopted?  As it is, there are two children the authorities are looking for "voluntary" DNA samples from.  What if the APs refuse to cooperate?  Or send bogus samples to be tested?

And then there's China....

Answer 6

Wow!  She doesn't look anything like the hopelessly impoverished uneducated street urchin preggos that the "guat-tot" gang in the US claims are in the streets begging saintly Americans to take their babies.

I think there will be h**l to pay when the "guat-tots" in the US grow up and realize that mommy and daddy essentially bribed the system to make them legal orphans via fraudulent DNA testing.

Answer 7

This is happening way more than PAP's wanting to adopt from there would like to believe. shame on anyone who pursues and adoption from that country imo.

Answer 8

What a sweet ending.