Why angelina adopts kids

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I am grateful every day. Bazaar Bride. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Goodbye to All That. Now she's a young director whose first feature-length documentary titled "Stolen Children" is making waves via Daily Mail. The film follows Jacobs' return to Cambodia 21 years later armed with nothing but a desire to, as she told Shoutout LA , "uncover the truth about my adoption and whether or not I was involved in the baby trafficking scandal that happened exactly the same time I was adopted.

The question of how the two women are connected begins with the adoptions themselves. In a woman named Lauryn Galindo, who had facilitated adoptions of Cambodian children spanning over a decade, was handed down a prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and money laundering via ABC News.

The charges stemmed from something much darker, the accusation that she "stole" children from vulnerable women. Meanwhile, Galindo got rich as the former hula dancer owned multiple homes around the world including a lavish property in Hawaii, as reported by ABC News. Essentially, Galindo put hundreds of Cambodian children in the hands of American parents. Among the trafficked are both Jacobs and allegedly the "Mr. Although Angelina was married to fellow actor Billy Bob Thornton at the time and they announced the adoption news together, Angelina formally adopted Maddox as a single parent.

The couple split 3 months after the adoption was finalised. In , Angelina decided to adopt her 2nd child, an Ethiopian girl named Zahara. The baby girl was born on 8 January , and adopted by Angelina when she was 6 months old. Angelina first met Zahara who was named Yemsrach by her birth mother and then changed to Tena Adam by the orphange at the Wide Horizons For Children orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and applied for adoption.

There was a slight set back after Zahara was brought home to the US, as her birth mother, who they thought had died during childbirth, surfaced, saying she had Zahara put in the orphanage because she was too poor to look after her.