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Adoption officials in Guatemala have safely returned a toddler to her biological mother after she was stolen and placed into the adoption system. Ana Escobar, was apparently locked in a storage closet of her family's shoe store while men kidnapped her 6-month-old girl last March.
Escobar has spent the last year searching for her daughter, only to come up empty handed. Both hospitals and orphanages were dead ends. However, when she finally went to the National Adoption Council's office in May, hoping to appeal to the Guatemalan council, she saw what looked like her daughter.
In fact, she was so sure that she made them show her the girl's file and demanded a new DNA test, results of which were positive.
Mr Tecu said: “This is the first time that we’ve been able to show, with irrefutable evidence, that a stolen child was put up for adoption.”
He said officials would investigate the lawyers who handled the adoption, the doctor who signed earlier, falsified DNA tests and anyone else associated with the process.
Guatemala has long been known as a "Baby Factory" but is just starting to reform their system so that children are not stolen from biological parents or sold to help the family pay bills. Officials are eager to reform so there will be no fraud.
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