GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan authorities have arrested an American accused of human trafficking and participating in illegal adoptions.
Guatemala arrests US orphanage founder, suspect in illegal adoptions
December 17, 2014 at 7:41PM
Prosecutors say Nancy Susan Bailey was apprehended in El Salvador and turned over to Guatemalan authorities via Interpol at the border between the two Central American countries.
The arrest warrant for Bailey was issued in 2008 and charged her with taking children and putting them up for illegal adoption for fees as high as $40,000, according to a statement released by prosecutors. She was arrested Tuesday.
Bailey founded the orphanage "Seeds of Love" outside the Guatemalan capital in 1996.
Guatemala's International Commission Against Impunity issued a report in 2010 saying it found 3,342 irregular adoptions, mostly to U.S. couples.
The commission described networks of child-trafficking in the country for the purpose of illegal adoptions.
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