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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Claire Galofaro and Sally Ho

Adopted and Locked Away: Kids promised 'forever homes' instead confined in for-profit institutions

Adopted Locked Away - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

She was 13 years old and scared of the dark when she arrived at a residential treatment center that had promised her adoptive parents it would help her heal — from the pain of not knowing who her mother was or why she’d given her away.

Kate plugged in a night light in the dorm room. She had needed one since she was sexually assaulted at another facility, she said.

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