International Adoption - A Complicated Quest to Do Good

Jennifer Hemsley and her husband wanted to adopt a girl from Guatemala but they immediately suspected fraud. Jennifer feared the worst: that the infant might have been kidnapped. “We were very concerned that her mother might be looking for her,” Jennifer tells us. What ensued was a years-long quest in which Jennifer sought to uncover the truth about the origins of the girl she wanted to adopt.

Tiny Spark looks at a seemingly good idea - international adoption - and its underside: fraud, corruption and child trafficking.