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COMMENTS: Samoa Scam
An adoption agency called Focus on Children found itself in the cross-hairs of 48 Hours Investigates on CBS. Maureen Maher filed a preview of her primetime documentary on the 80-or-so orphans from Samoa that Focus on Children provided for more than 50 families in America at a fee of $13,000 per adoption. Maher revealed that the children were not orphans after all: "The Samoan families, all poor and uneducated, believed they had signed their children up for a foster program and that their children would be coming home at age 18." The operators of Focus on Children faced felony prosecutions but have plea bargained the case down to "just a handful of misdemeanors." As for the legality of the adoptions--that ruling is still pending.
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