Nancy Susan Bailey Arrested on Illegal Adoption in Guatemala UPDATED

Nancy Bailey? like owner of  Semillas de Amor? See  Here for the relation to JCICS.

“Guatemalan authorities have arrested an American accused of human trafficking and participating in illegal adoptions.

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.”

American arrested on illegal adoption, human trafficking charges in Guatemala[FOX News 12/18/14 by Associated Press]

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Update:“A Guatemalan court has ordered an American woman to stand trial on charges of participating in illegal adoptions.

The prosecutors’ office for human trafficking says the court found sufficient evidence to try Nancy Susan Bailey, who is being treated for high blood pressure at a Guatemalan hospital.

Bailey was apprehended in El Salvador and turned over to Guatemalan authorities at the border between the two Central American countries Dec. 17.

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.

Bailey founded the orphanage Seeds of Love outside Guatemala’s capital in 1996.

Guatemala’s International Commission Against Impunity said in a 2010 report that it found 3,342 irregular adoptions, mostly to U.S. couples.”

American to Face Trial in Guatemala Adoption Case[ABC NEWS 1/8/15 by Associated press]

Update 2: “The Court of Increased Risk B prosecutors received the request to start the trial against the US,Nancy Susan Bailey, designated to promote illegal adoptions.

According to the investigative body, the designated, founded in 2000, the Seeds of Love Association, an organization that was used to house children and then began the process of adopting families in the United States, Europe and Asia. ”

http://www.publinews.gt/nacionales/el-ministerio-publico-plantea-iniciarle-juicio-a-estadounidense/Tetofi—FBYeVcptJjWms/[Google translated from Publi News 6/9/15]