World IN BRIEF : ROMANIA : Controls Are Set Up to Halt Baby Trade
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Government officials in Bucharest, Romania, centralized adoption controls to prevent baby-traders--middlemen ranging from taxi drivers to lawyers--from profiting from foreigners who seek children among Romanian orphans. A Committee for Adoption has begun screening all adoptions by both Romanian and foreign couples, an official said. Previously, adoptions were supervised by district courts. But the disclosure of the baby-trade abuses in the foreign press prompted the government to set up the new regulatory body.
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