Brazilian trade in babies for adoption suspected
NZPA-Reuter Rio de Janeiro Police believe an international ring is involved in baby trafficking after two aborted attempts to illegally adopt Brazilian infants. Police in the northeastern state of Aaloagoas have intervened in the case of a four-month-old baby boy who was to have been delivered to Italy to a couple whom they identified as Nicola Pirosi and
Emilia Giaconi, a spokesman said. Last month, police recovered a 20-day-old baby boy who was to go to Israel after being “adopted” by an Israeli couple who made a stopover in New York City. United States immigration officials discovered the baby’s passport had been forged. Brazilian police have been trying to identify his real mother and arrest an Argentine suspected of
having been paid SUS7OOO ($NZ12,670) by the Israeli couple. “We believe an international gang is involved with baby trafficking in Brazil,” the spokesman' said. He declined to elaborate. Adoption by foreign families is legal in Brazil if a qualified judge approves of the arrangement and federal police issue a passport for the youngster, a Justice Ministry spokesman said.
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