At 13 Tarikua Lemma was "adopted" but not very legally. Her mother had died during childbirth but she still had her father and 2 younger sisters. Friends of her fathers worked at an adoption agency in Ethiopia. In 2006 her fathers "friends" convinced him into believing that he would send his daughters to america for a learning program and they would come home every summer and other breaks. But really his "friends" were being paid to get children for the american adoption agency. The family that had adopted them had also been lied to they were told that the 3 kids were AIDS orphans and that Tarikua was 9. which was all wrong. Their new parents changed their names and they were now not allowed to speak their old language. She then got sent to a new home without her sisters and she has been changing homes since. She is now trying to raise money to go back to her family in Ethiopia.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/opinion/international-adoption-tarikuwa-lemma-stolen-children/?iref=obinsite
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