gauging the death of a palestinian woman after her husband said israeli settlers pelted that car with stones a funerals been held for forty eight year old i shall mohammad robbie who was traveling with her husband through the occupied west bank he says mother of eight was struck in the head and died in hospital and tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating in berlin against racism and discrimination a wide range of groups including progress future gay rights and muslim organizations are backing the protest has been organized as a counter rally against right wing groups who have been holding violent and xenophobia demonstrations in the past few months but as the top stories more news coming out later on coming up next on al-jazeera it's faultlines.

you can leave your lives. the only place florence genova see their children now is in fairy tales five years ago they sent them to stay with their system arya. but when they returned to collect their children had disappeared. marian claimed she put them in a boarding school but in fact the children had been taken to america legally adopted without their mother's knowledge. what do you think about the fact that a family can come from another country and become the legal parents of somebody else's child to be sure you know who the runner mama to our mother is in the need to go and i've been granted under enough going on as it is. merriam's that she been approached by an agent who promised the children

a free education. but that promise turned out to be a conduit for international adoption and by the time the sisters even suspected something was wrong the children were no longer bez if you had a chance to speak to the family that your children are living with what would you say to them. and. go florence and jennifer among countless families in uganda whose children have been lost to international adoption and who leave. this industry isn't being driven by a supply of orphans in need of homes is being driven by demand from america barbara we need more children we need today and we have families waiting here we need children we need today this woman worked for an american adoption agency it was her job to find children to be adopted them not in a market. for sale. faultlines teamed up with the investigative

fun to explore the markets in uganda children asking how this could happen who's responsible and if there's any hope these mothers will see their children again. that. will get them in when i'm at it. again and i'm going to young. men admire. top of the lives no remote village about five hours by car from uganda's capital kampala. six years ago her son michael was adopted by an american family he'd been ill and she couldn't afford

his treatment so when some people came to her community saying they wanted to help needy children she thought her son was lucky to be chosen. minimally to work. and. so she said so what happened to tab is incredibly complicated. with the help of an interpreter i tried to get the full story but even now six years later she seems confused about what she agreed to. watch on any. i had you on me. bring out the thing at the. top out of the laurel. he's. able to let you know that in the looking at the and. so she said

that they committed that in fact court records show top as they consented to the adoption of michael their legally speaking she's no longer his mother. laura and philip hunger are adoptive parents to michael and henry now he lives in portland oregon with this family philip and nora hunka this is the local news report filmed last year with michael and another boy their doctors from china. three years after they took michael to america tabitha gave birth to another boy solomon. it's pizza night at the hunger home but something is missing when they heard the top of that had another baby and was again in need of help the hardest and money for solomon's calf. they wanted to adopt him too and sent an agent to talk to tabitha awash in hunger. yet they added the meal. we see the. no anatomy and. eventually the hunger came to uganda and hottest as she was called

to a meeting in camp paula. she said she felt ill while she was there and had a dizzy spell it was then she says the woman at the meeting took solomon from her and gave him to nora hunka. we also hungers to confirm what happened at that meeting but they didn't respond to the question however they didn't see this the top of the has repeatedly agreed to the adoption and that she signed documents to that effect. just by this tabitha told us that she had never wanted to give us on a way. that. when you were doing at the dimia was. king. and she could see them was holidaying hatch and then she asked what about my chair how do i get my share then they said they would bring that up

a man and a woman i knew. that's the day he was taken from her. tab of the so she was still breast feeding when solomon was taken away from her she told us she felt so distraught the next morning she wanted to take her own life. that was more than two years ago and the last time top of that had her son. to find out more i went to the family court in tampa. they keep the chaotic archive containing thousands of files one for every child adopted including solomon. in his i found information about tabitha and the hunter family as well as their american adoption agency journeys of the heart. the court records show the before hearings before solomon's adoption was approved. at the first two the judge

adjourned saying top of the didn't understand what adoption was or wanted for solomon. but at the third hearing the records they tabitha returned to court and agreed to the adoption. of the fourth hearing the judge granted the adoption application and solomon became the hungers legal child. was it ever your intention to sign away. guardianship of solomon to a different family. but an american family can take a ugandan child back home with them without a visa to the us and eighteen months later solomon still hadn't been approved the family pay on able to bring him home with them the hungers became frustrated say i'm not sure this is video taken by the orphanage last november this is been

excruciating on our family the hunger say the ugandan high court approved the adoption more than a year ago but when they went to the us embassy to get solomon's visa approved they were stonewalled they have not given us any reasons why that application has not been accepted. now do you think the hold up that. had like to know the answer to that is well honestly. the u.s. embassy refused to comment but again solomons court fall is useful. when we talk to tabitha told me she'd been called to a meeting at the american embassy in kampala the embassy staff it asked her if she'd wanted solomon to be adopted at the. her claim that she told the officials she was against the adoption is given some credence by documents in the file. if the letter written by the u.s. embassy to the ugandan court describing solomon's adoption as problematic. only need the help we need the united states government to approve his application

despite top of his insistence that she didn't want her child to be adopted solomon wasn't returned to her she told us she hadn't even been allowed to see him where a song now. but. after a lot of searching i found a social worker who knew. sterile ones in charge of child welfare in uganda when she heard about top of the story she moved solomon from the childminder being paid by the hungers to a government babies home there is on i took that action as the office of responsible for children was because i received a complaint from them and she was insisting that she didn't want to child or when

they say divest will be for me to move in and see where the child is placed how much more information do you need i mean it's been over a year the tablet lost custody of solomon is more than a year. how many times you off the passengers they know before you or the process in i cannot say how many attains you know it counseling is a process. and these drug war. stella was also behind a change to ugandan law which means that foreign families wanting to adopt now have to foster a child in uganda for at least one year so that law took effect in two thousand and sixteen the year before solomon was adopted wanted to prevent just wish and we have people just playing today. get. the children the next two weeks that's what we wanted to avoid do you think a family in america who illegally parents the store would have any idea of the

tobias' here in uganda is there where. they are where because from the day i go to sort of. the dutch for me the good to know the been sent to me a message to call me i told them i would i wouldn't discuss them to issue a form but i would exchange e-mails and they didn't do that. but they've been communicating through their lawyers. but how could the hungers and that the legal obligation to foster solomon when they hadn't spent the required year in uganda. the judge in the case moses maci decided that since the hunters had been paying someone to look after solomon they had in effect constructively fostered him. i wanted to ask judge maci why he had come to this conclusion but he declined to be interviewed. i also want to do know more about the american agency behind solomon michael's adoptions. are tracked down

a former agent of baz barbara and about a camera she told me she'd spent three years working for journeys at the heart she was arrested in two thousand and fourteen and soon after that parted ways we met at an undisclosed location. so what was the involvement of journeys of the heart. to provide their financial support and then i would provide this service. it's obvious was to find children that can be adopted they wanted everything fast first because if if you get a child today spends in a home relate to months three months. is adopted that means they're spending less on this child. but if a child comes days for a year. it's much expense and they would say that to you they would say we need children that can be adopted first it doesn't sound like they were very concerned

about the children you know it sounds like they were concerned about the business. business you say you felt a lot of pressure did you worry that there would be consequences if you didn't find the children of course those certainly are closing. up close and if. if you're not bringing in my children we are closing so they would basically threaten to fire you yes you didn't provide as many children as they wanted. there were allegations that barbara had been trafficking children amongst other things eventually the police charged her with child neglect but she disappeared for a time and now police they have files missing she denies all of the charges. the barber was just a local agent for journeys of the heart. to find out more i needed to talk to the agency's director in the u.s.

it's lansky. after a lot of attempts to get hold of david sklansky by email and on the phone i have finally come to poland to see if i can find him in pass and i think this might be his whom interests for this is a field i feel doing. no good morning david sklansky yes i want to talk to you about some families in uganda who say their children were adopted against their wishes i'd rather not. georgia tell me about this series solomon who is currently living in a government institution because his mother in uganda doesn't want him to be adopted her and she's given conflicting stories or talk to family who wants to adopt i've been trying to for some reason they don't seem to want to speak to me and my understanding is that on many occasions she has consented how do you sometimes as a mother need to object to an adoption reform

a salesperson he says well it wasn't for me to start the process the family wanted to continue so you were just fast to facilitate the american family. pretty much the family needed age sooner us to. to try. to be there for them and they were right. we will help them before we believe their child has made it medically very medical records that the mother was very desperate we believe her her story just as we understood the beginning so in is with initiated all to that change to the north some judges were saying that the exceptions for medical medically exigent exceptions which you saw and to be clear you don't have any regard for the change to the law that's not a concern to you it's. they're relevant and we have not to. encourage families or listen to their interest to adopt from uganda since since them apart from the

holocaust yeah we can't really talk to us so after being contacted by the person did you inform them about the change to the norse they were very certain that. the international adoption can be complicated but this family says it has been like a living nightmare every day there without their son the hungers contacted senators ron wyden and jeff merkley they've told us that they're on our side of the i think that our story is viable philip and laura hunka been very public in math to get solomon to the us so i was surprised when they told me by email they didn't want to be interviewed by fault lines. according to the records philip was in court when the judge ruled the top of the didn't understand the implication of an adoption. so i wanted to know why the family was still pursuing and. we tried to talk to phillip punkers he was getting into his car i want to talk to you about thomas and her son solomon for you are you send us e-mail us at your back saying that we're not ok

amor tabitha says she doesn't want this adoption to happen. and the court records reflect that it depends on. when you talk to him and it depends on which court records. ok i mean i've seen four sat score before hearings yeah what's your understanding of what her wishes are. at i can't talk about this my attorney we know you're from machine attorney she told us not to speak with you not to speak with you. and then just before this film went to add we did hear from the hunters in an email they insisted again the top of the has repeatedly agreed to this adoption. and us photos of tabitha signing documents to that effect. we don't know if the hungers will succeed in bringing solomon to america but we do know his case isn't

isolated. more than one thousand six hundred ugandan children have been adopted to america since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine but it's hard to know how many of them were actually orphans and how many may have had parents who still wanted them. for the past twelve years the council on accreditation has been regulating american adoption agencies. i wanted to know if journeys of the heart had been investigated over any of the issues raised in this film. so i talk to the c.e.o. richard kloberg i can answer that question the answer is i don't know is that not the type of thing that ought to have come up when it came to rear crediting journeys of the heart. it would have if we had had access to that information yes and how would you get access and they would have had access most likely from the united states government. post in gondor whether it's

state department or homeland security their immigration and in the case of journeys of the heart you didn't get other information i just don't want to comment about any specific agency i asked him why his organization doesn't put more emphasis on investigating wrongdoing a.b.c.'s going about identifying whether that has happened is is not something that we are trained to do that we have the resources to do or or actually that we have in any way the capacity to do why if it's difficult to trust some of the institutions in countries like uganda which i think is a fairly well accepted fact why then with the department of state continue to allow into country to option i think you'd have to ask the united states department of state i have asked myself that question again and again.

and it is. it's a puzzle to me it depends the state department refused to be interviewed for this story but in e-mail they said they rely on their creditors to monitor and to see adoption agencies. it's been five years since tronson jennifer's children were taken to america. at best the adoption was deeply flawed in the process may have been fraudulent. the mother say they didn't even know it was happening. i'm going to ride it out to have another round of a time that would be. about but about two weeks long i want to i don't know which. is so hard. i'm going to. turn on the horn on on the phone.

they've reported it as a crime to the police but now that the children are in america there's nothing anyone can do. the children belong to a different family now. i traced that family to their hometown. and the father agreed to be interviewed anonymously because he said he hasn't told the children their biological families and looking for them very first thing we did it's all dark or americans attorney who finalized the adoption in the states with us to confirm. if it's legally finalized what we need to do to confirm that things are going to change for the children and old us done in finalized what does it feel like to know that the some kind of dispute over your children so. devastating we have children to go to bed every night in our home whose parents in uganda are wishing they were going to bed in their hood your parents and you go on those who only see your children their

children or their work electronically. see to use well intended concepts and turn them into a culture that we can do he's like myself who will try and end up being trolled perfectly unintentionally you know. what would you say if another family from america told you they were considering adopting from uganda i would signal that's the short answer told because you're saying no for a lot more. do you think you were when you for your agency application. there's nothing anyone can do to get them back unless the adoptive family wants to return. so it's possible that florence and jennifer will never see the children again. there might still be hope for taba than solomon. we are also the social worker amassing campagna if we could at least bring her to

see her son he's now almost three and he's been separated from his mother for the majority of his life. i'm going to look at it. less than that but i'm. actually. now been a student mark i would like to think i need a fucking way a good man and get back now that i was. a king going in and they got to have me down. there. solomon didn't recognise his mother

he seemed scared when she approached him. she left him alone for a while to calm down. but it wasn't easy at the second time. her her. own much too pretty. and i won't go as she can't be many of them in time and i'm amy. what is. i'm a good daughter i am and i.

act bad by. the way that. she has to leave him behind he isn't her child anymore. this legal tug of war has meant a solomon has lived in an institution for much of his life. in need and you know that means you need to believe. any peeling you to make you wing as well as lad getting to you know to me that. were. i have dedicated almost my entire professional life

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