Illegal Adoption Agency Charged with Child Trafficking

Hashem Osseiran - The Daily Star

Zeina Abdullah, the owner of a migrant domestic worker recruitment agency in Lebanon, and two Lebanese doctors, Dr. Aziz Samaha and Dr. Fouad Joseph Helou, have been accused of forming an illegal child adoption ring, according to the article. The three individuals allegedly worked together to coerce migrant workers into relinquishing their newborns in exchange for the migrants’ facilitated travel to their homes of origin. Abdullah worked with the migrants and adoptive parents to make the arrangements, while the doctors would forge birth certificates of the migrants’ newly delivered babies, says the article. The three are accused of child trafficking and arrest warrants have been issued.