"I was telling anybody and everybody that they need to support 2nd Milk, so I felt like it was my responsibility to find out the truth," Nellya Canfield said

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Following the federal indictment of the founders of 2nd Milk, a Springdale-based nonprofit aimed at helping orphaned children in Africa and elsewhere, a Tennessee woman involved with the group is coming forward with details of her experience. 

Nellya Canfield said she met Jason and Lacey Carney in 2021. She said she and her husband were in the process of trying to adopt a child from Malawi, Africa when the adoption agency put her in contact with 2nd Milk. 

“Jason really helped me in that," Canfield said. "He's an adoptive dad. He's an adoptee himself, and I think what really put our walls down was the fact that he actually started off as a missionary in Malawi, Africa, so we really felt like he checked every single box to be able to run an ethical nonprofit.” 

It was after meeting, Canfield said, that she and her husband began donating $400 a month to 2nd Milk for several months in a row. 

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The unsealed indictment in the Jason Carney case outlines the United States government’s case against the 2nd Milk co-founder in his federal wire fraud trial.

The 29-page document outlines how the prosecutors say Carney misappropriated donations intended to help orphaned children from impoverished villages in Africa.

The federal government alleges Carney and his family used portions of those donations to fund personal travel, boat loans, and routine living expenses.

Misuse of donated funds

In count one of the indictment, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the government highlights 13 donations made to 2nd Milk from two companies, one individual, and one foundation.

Following a traumatic birth, Ruth Appleby wanted nothing more than to cradle her baby daughter in her arms.

Named Rebecca, she had been whisked away following Ruth’s Caesarean section, and whenever the then 29-year-old asked nurses when she could see her, the reply was always ‘soon’.

It was left to her husband Howard to tell Ruth the devastating news that it would never happen: Rebecca had, inexplicably, died within hours of being born.

As the obstetrician later explained, it was like a ‘bad lottery’.

FAYETTEVILLE — A husband charged along with his wife with fraud involving their nonprofit group has pleaded not guilty in...

MANAUS (AM) – The Missing Persons Brazil and Netherlands Institution (PDBeH) will return to Brazil once again to hold the fourth edition of the project “DNA Mothers of Brazil,” offering registration kits for the International Database. The registration process will take place at the auditorium of the Amazonas State Secretariat of Justice, Human Rights and Citizenship (Sejusc) on January 16th, starting at 3 pm, and on the 17th, starting at 9 am.

Mothers who gave their children up for adoption, unaware of their whereabouts, and wish to find them but don’t know where to begin their search can participate in the registration. According to Anna Catharina, director of PDBeH, this is the most effective way to reunite families.

Participants in the “DNA Mothers of Brazil” project (Courtesy Photo)

“Genetic data cross-referencing is 100% reliable, precise, and delivers results monthly. It’s a way to discover family ties without the need to search in person for where these families are. Once registered, a mother has the chance to find the person they’re looking for, provided that individual is also entered in the Database,” she said.

Anna Catharina further explained that the project came to this conclusion after research revealed that over half of adopted children living outside Brazil are already registered in the International Database.

The 'PD Notebook' sheds light on the overall problem of managing the adoption records of children adopted abroad.

MBC's current affairs program "PD Notebook," which will air at 10:20 p.m. on the 14th, will air the "Disappeared Adoption Record: The Country That Erased Me."

South Korea, which has been labeled a "child exporter" by sending 200,000 children abroad for adoption over the past 70 years. Finding roots is at stake as a comprehensive problem has been revealed in the management of adoption records for those who were recently adopted abroad. It has been revealed that not only adoption institutions but also public institutions that were willing to receive private records and manage them have concealed the problem. The 'PD Notebook' examines the true nature of the adoption record computerization project, which has been carried out for 10 years since 2013.

adoptees who believed in false records

The "PD Notebook" met adoptees who had difficulty finding their biological families due to their adoption records. Park Sang-jo, a Danish adoptee, visited Korea more than 10 times in 35 years to find her biological parents. He gave up looking for his family, believing that the record of adoption of "orphan" by Holt Children's Welfare Association was true. However, this year, I suddenly find out that I have information from my biological father and I am shocked. Although his biological father was already dead, it was impossible to meet him, Holt did not comply with Park's request to provide adoption records to meet many brothers. Park, who overcame various obstacles and met his siblings dramatically, learned that his family had asked the agency to get him back, but was already rejected for leaving far away and had been looking for his whole life.

GOLDEN MATONGA

Jason Carney, the founder of the controversial Malawi registered NGO exposed by PIJ for exploiting Malawi children has been arrested by authorities in the US.

The specific charges against Carney, whose organization has been the subject of two major PIJ investigations around the use of its finances and illegal adoptions in Malawi, are yet to be released.

14 cantons want to work together better in the future to help adopted people find their biological parents. Because not everything always went smoothly. A look back.

Why were there so many international adoptions in the past?

As economic and social conditions improved in Switzerland – especially for single mothers – there were fewer children available for adoption. Some Swiss couples therefore looked for children abroad. From the 1960s onwards there was a wave of adoptions from Asian countries, later from South America and Africa and from 1989 from Eastern Europe.

Unwanted childlessness was not always the reason. Some Swiss couples also saw adoption as a "humanitarian act". For social or religious reasons, they wanted to free children from poverty and offer them a better life with educational opportunities.

Jason Carney ran 2nd Milk charity and found orphans in Malawi for U.S. families

Federal authorities have arrested Jason Carney, an American who ran a charity to feed African orphans and brokered adoptions in Malawi for U.S. clients.

Carney was detained Friday in Arkansas in connection with a U.S. State Department investigation, according to a local law-enforcement record and people familiar with the matter. Carney and his wife couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. It couldn’t immediately be learned what charges he faced. 

The Wall Street Journal in August reported that the State Department was investigating Carney and his charity called 2nd Milk. Officials suspected Carney was using money raised for the charity to pay for his travel and lifestyle, according to an affidavit filed by a State Department investigator.

The Journal investigation found former employees at 2nd Milk who said that Carney represented to U.S. families that certain babies were available for adoption, even though Carney hadn’t gotten proper approval from their biological families or the Malawian ministry. 

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Wednesday cleared the government and an adoption agency of all liability in a lawsuit filed by a 49-year-old Korean man whose traumatic adoption journey led to an abusive childhood in the United States and ultimately his deportation to South Korea in 2016 after legal troubles.

In exonerating the South Korean government over the case of Adam Crapser, whose U.S. adoptive parents never secured his citizenship, the Seoul High Court overturned a 2023 lower court ruling that ordered his adoption agency, Holt Children’s Services, to pay him 100 million won ($68,600) in damages. The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Holt should have informed his adoptive parents that they needed to take additional steps to secure his citizenship after his adoption was finalized in their state court, but didn’t find the government at fault for Crapser’s plight.

The full text of the Seoul High Court’s ruling wasn’t immediately available. Crapser didn’t attend the ruling.

Crapser, a married father of two, says he was abused and abandoned by two different adoptive families who never filed his citizenship papers. He got into trouble with the law — once for breaking into his adoptive parents’ home to retrieve the Bible that came with him from the orphanage — and was deported because he was not a U.S. citizen.

In their defense against the accusations of malfeasance raised by Crapser, the government and Holt both cited a 1970s adoption law established under a military dictatorship that was designed to speed up adoptions.