Fri May 24 10:16:39 SAST 2013
Fri May 24 10:16:39 SAST 2013

US couple detained in Ghana for trying to adopt

Jun 27, 2012 | Sapa-AP | 2 comments

Police in Ghana say an American couple was recently detained on suspicion of child trafficking after trying to board a plane with four children they are trying to adopt.

Picture taken from www.ikumimoriya.blogspot.com

 They say the children were adopted and we are investigating to find out if this has been properly granted by a court of proper jurisdiction 

Comfort Miah, an official with the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit, told The Associated Press: "They say the children were adopted and we are investigating to find out if this has been properly granted by a court of proper jurisdiction."

Sol and Christine Moghadam from Irvine, Calif., were traveling with their two biological children and four adopted siblings from Ghana. They were stopped Friday at Accra's airport.

On their blog and in a video created on their behalf, the couple says they were forced to spend Friday night in jail. Their two biological children were placed in an orphanage. As of Tuesday, they had still not been allowed to leave Ghana.

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Jun 27, 2012

Papage

These people are taking advantage of the poor and vulnarable, they come here to steal our babies to make them their toys/pest back home
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Jun 27, 2012

somaartakeit

well done Ghana authorities, these ppl could be smuggling these poor orphaned kids for pedophile mafia ring, well done Ghana for acting in the best interests of the children,
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