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39 Cumb. L. Rev. 87 (2008-2009)
Sold into Adoption: The Hunan Baby Trafficking Scandal Exposes Vulnerabilities in Chinese Adoptions to the United States

handle is hein.journals/cumlr39 and id is 89 raw text is: SOLD INTO ADOPTION: THE HUNAN BABY TRAFFICKING SCANDAL EXPOSES VULNERABILITIES IN CHINESE ADOPTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES PATRICIAJ. MEIER' & XIAOLE ZHANG2 INTRODUCTION A. The Story: Babies Sold Into Adoption On Friday, November 11, 2005, at three o'clock in the after- noon, two women carrying three babies emerged from the Heng- yang County train station in the southern Chinese province of Hu- nan.3 The women placed the three infants in a black car parked at the station.4 Chinese law enforcement officers - generally on alert for baby traffickers in China, especially at train stations - inter- vened.5 China has a long history of, and continuing problems with, child trafficking.6 The police were probably not surprised to learn 'Patty Meier is a December 2008 graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law. She thanks Professors Mark Sidel and David M. Smolin for their guidance and feedback, her family for their patience, and her colleague, Xiaole Zhang, without whom the research could not have been done. The work is dedicated to Shu Shu, who one day may want to know. 2 LL.B., University of International Business and Economics School of Law (PRC), LL.M., J.D. (anticipated May 2009), University of Iowa College of Law. The author is grateful to Professor Mark Sidel and the co-author, Patty Meier, at the University of Iowa College of Law. ' Deng Fei, The Hengyang Infant Dealing Case Benevolence or vice? That question has generated far-reaching controversy, PHOENIX WEEKLY, Apr. 11, 2006, http://www.phoenixtv.com/phoenixtv/83932384042418176/20060411/776299.sh tml, translation available at http://research-china.blogspot.com/2006/10/hunan- one-year-after-part-one.html. 4 Id. 5 Id.; see also HumanTrafficking.org, China, http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/china (last visited Oct. 28, 2008). 6 Posting of Brian Stuy to Research-China.org, Haunting Faces on a Page, http://research-china.blogspot.com/2006/05/haunting-faces-on-page.html (May 23, 2006, 17:26 MDT); see XIN REN, TRAFFICKING IN CHILDREN: CHINA AND ASIAN PERSPECTIVE, PRESENTED AT CONFERENCE ON MAKING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS WORK: NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, INTERNATIONAL BUREAU FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS, MONTREAL, CANADA, (2004), available at http://www.no- trafficking.org/content/web/05readingrooms/China/ trafficking-inchina _chinaand-asian-perspective.pdf; Combating Human Trafficking in China: Domestic & International Efforts: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Comm'n on China, 109th Cong. 2 (2006), available at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi- bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109housejhearings&docid= f:26671.wais; U.S. DEP'T OF STATE, CHINA (INCLUDES TIBET, HONG KONG, AND MACAU), COUNTRY REPORTS ON

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