Australian mother, TV crew jailed in botched child ‘recovery’ return from Lebanon

Australian mother Sally Faulkner just wanted to bring her two young children home again, but she instead wound up in a Lebanese jail and embroiled in a controversy involving an current affairs program and a man hired to snatch her kids off a Beirut street.

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British ‘child recovery’ agent to face Lebanese judge over kidnapping claims

A British “child recovery” specialist is expected to go before a Lebanese judge on Tuesday accused of kidnapping two children in partnership with their Australian mother, a journalist and a television crew.

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Illegal adoption agency charged with child trafficking

Illegal adoption agency charged with child trafficking

An illegal child adoption agency which allegedly worked to convince migrant domestic workers to give up newborns in return for facilitating travel back home has been accused of child trafficking and forging birth certificates. Zeina Abdullah, the owner of a migrant domestic worker recruitment agency, and two licensed Lebanese doctors were accused three weeks ago of child trafficking after an investigative reality show reported the case of a migrant worker who agreed to give up her child to the network. - See more at: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Jan-28/285558-illegal-adoption-agency-charged-with-child-trafficking.ashx#sthash.D4Hgp87P.dpuf