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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Claire Galofaro and Kim Tong-Hyung

South Korean adoptees and families rocked by fraud allegations

South Korea Adoption Fraud Parents - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Her greatest fear, dormant for decades, came rushing back in an instant: had she adopted and raised a kidnapped child?

Peg Reif’s daughter, adopted from South Korea in the 1980s, had sent her a link to a documentary detailing how the system that made their family was rife with fraud: documents falsified, babies switched, children snatched off the street and sent abroad.

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