Response to Christian World Adoption Statement September 16 2009-09-17
Foreign Correspondent approached Christian World Adoption at least half a dozen times requesting an interview with the organisation, but received no response to emails or phone messages. Foreign Correspondent was fully prepared to travel to CWA's head office in South Carolina to conduct the interview. CWA chose not to respond and therefore not to participate in the program.
Foreign Correspondent disputes a number of claims and assertions in a statement from CWA posted directly to producer Mary Ann Jolley well after the program `Fly Away Children' aired. We understand the statement has been widely circulated by CWA to its constituents, clients and others.
We will deal only with the disputed claims.
1) "The lady called Michelle, who is shown in the video interviewing children to be adopted, was not a CWA staff person…"