Maine agency caught in Sierra Leone adoption dispute
Balia Kamara’s mother sent her to a center in northern Sierra Leone so the 5-year-old could receive an education and food and stay out of harm’s way during the West African country’s brutal civil war.
The mother visited Balia at the Help A Needy Child International center, known as HANCI, regularly for two years until 1998, when the children there were taken to Sierra Leone’s capital for medical examinations.
They never returned. Instead, a Maine agency facilitated their adoptions in the United States. Parents of about 30 children at the center say they never gave permission for the adoptions.
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