Vietnamese girl ripped from family for US adopter
Last updated: Monday, December 30, 2013 13:45
Phung Thi Thanh (left) and her daughter Tran Thi Bay have been demanding that her granddaughter be returned by an orphanage that let the girl be adopted by Americans without their consent in 2007. Photo courtesy of Tuoi Tre
A family in the central province of Quang Nam has been demanding that their child be returned after officials persuaded them to put her in an orphanage that then allowed her to be adopted by a family in the US in 2007.
Phung Thi Thanh has sold all her valuables -- a total of three cows -- to travel many times to central and local government offices with her complaint, but the law has not been on her side, according to a Tuoi Tre newspaper report Sunday.