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Source: NY Daily News
A South Carolina man whose wife put their baby up for adoption without his knowledge or consent will be reunited with his daughter after a nearly two-year legal battle, a Utah court ruled.
A Provo judge ruled he was astonished and deeply troubled" by an adoption agencys deliberate efforts to circumvent the legal rights of father Terry Achane, who was serving as an Army drill instructor when his child was adopted without his knowledge.
Judge Darold McDade gave the adoption agency and the adoptive parents, Jared and Kristi Frei, 60 days to return Achanes daughter, Teleah, now 21 months old.
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"Children are being bought and sold. It is one thing what [adoption agencies] have been doing with unmarried biological fathers. It is in a new area when they are trying to take a child away from a married father who wants to have his child, he said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/judge-orders-return-baby-adopted-real-father-knowledge-article-1.1213064
Isn't this human trafficking? I thought that was illegal?