Free State parents among four nabbed for illegal adoption, fraud: Two Free State parents are among four people who appeared in court on Monday on illegal adoption and fraud charges, the Hawks confirmed on Tuesday.
The four were arrested between Friday and Saturday after police were alerted to suspicious behaviour by a home affairs official.
According to Hawks Free State spokesperson, W/O Fikiswa Matoti, the official sounded the alarm after two women , a Lesotho national and a South African, aged 35 and 51, went to the home affairs offices in Botshabelo to apply for late registrations for two children, aged five and 15.After a preliminary investigation, it was discovered that an official from the department of health allegedly recruits foreign nationals to illegally adopt children.
“The recruited woman identifies children and negotiates with their parents to give consent in exchange for a money reward should they agree. She would [then] take the children to a home affairs official who will register them.”
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