RING IN COLUMBIA KIDNAPS CHILDREN FOR SALE ABROAD
By WARREN HOGE, Special to the New York Times
Published: August 16, 1981
BOGOTA, Aug. 15— The authorities have uncovered a multimillion dollar international ring in which hundreds of poor Andean children were kidnapped or bought from their mothers and sold under forged birth certificates and adoption papers to childless couples from the United States and Europe.
A Bogota lawyer has been jailed on charges involving the smuggling abroad of 500 to 600 youngsters from Colombia and possibly 100 more from Peru. In neighboring Ecuador, officials have turned up more than a hundred questionable adoptions by Italian families.