[DiamondSmiles]

What happens when American parents adopt internationally and find the challenges of raising an adoptive child overwhelming? Some are turning to underground online chat rooms, where they can advertise their child and send him or her to a new home. NBC's Kate Snow reports.

By Monica Alba, Kate Snow and Mark Schone

NBC News

Editor's Note: Today's stories are the first in a series of online and broadcast reports on adoption by Reuters and NBC News.

A Tennessee woman says that when her adoptive parents gave her away to new parents at age 14, she and 17 other adoptive kids in her, “nightmarish,” new home were sometimes forced to dig their own, “graves,” in the backyard and scrub the floor with toothbrushes.

“’Get out and go dig your own grave,” Nora Gateley, now 26, says her new mother told her. “’I don’t care if you die. Nobody will find you. You were not even here in the first place.”

Americans have adopted nearly a quarter million children from overseas since the late 1990s, but sometimes the children have undisclosed physical or behavioral problems, and sometimes their adoptive parents simply can’t cope with their new responsibilities.

An investigation by Reuters in partnership with NBC News has uncovered an underground world of “re-homing,” where parents give their children to new caretakers, sometimes people they have met only over the internet, with little or no government oversight.

Nora Gateley was, “re-homed,” after she thought she’d hit the jackpot. Abandoned at birth in Guangdong, China, and with a right leg crippled by polio, she was about to turn 13 and become too old for adoption in 1999 when an American couple showed up at her orphanage with a Snoopy backpack and jewelry. Within weeks they'd whisked her away to a new life in the Florida Keys.

Read the First Installment of the Reuters Investiative Report here:
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_n...-children?lite

Slideshow of Children Traded Online here
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52939951/d...7?beginSlide=1

[HairyGrape]

Re-homed?!?

Ffs they aren't dogs on Craigslist.

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by HairyGrape ↗

Re-homed?!?

Ffs they aren't dogs on Craigslist.

I've never been on there, but, I know some have tried to sell babies on facebook.

I say it every time, but, for all the women and couples who want children, this kind of thing does more than piss me off

[ices]

And people wonder how pedophiles get ahold of children so easily.

[invertigo]

This represents only a tiny fraction of adopted parents. It's sad to see what a negative light these people cast on all overseas adoptions.

Perhaps these individuals initially confused 'adoption' for 'fostering', and expected some government hand-outs only to find out it just don't work like that, jack.
People who exploit children in this manner are some of the most disgusting people on the planet, though they're hardly contained in the US alone. Human trafficking has become pandemic

[OhJstFkOffAlrdy]

Well, at least I now have an idea as to what Angelina Jolie and Madonna have been up to lately.

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by Metal Mike ↗

Well, at least I now have an idea as to what Angelina Jolie and Madonna have been up to lately.

I have to give you a thumbs down on this one, Mike

[LiquidSky]

I read the entire story today on Reuters and the whole story is insanely fucked up. Part four will be out tomorrow. Definitely a good read.

A fucking PEDOPHILE picked up a boy this way--from a family who adopted him then didn't want him anymore because he was a problem.

What the fuck do people think they are getting when they are adopting kids who aren't newborns? The likelihood of the kids having emotional and psychological difficulties seem pretty obvious to me.

[LiquidSky]

Sorry, part 5 was published today, not part 4.

[Pyramid_Head]

They obviously don't check into whom is taking these kids. I hear about shit like this far too often.