{"id":10544,"date":"2011-09-30T01:09:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T01:09:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-30T01:09:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T01:09:43","slug":"China-Fires-12-After-Inquiry-on-Adoptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10544","title":{"rendered":"China Fires 12 After Inquiry on Adoptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Twelve government employees have been fired and stripped of their Communist Party membership after an investigation into allegations that family planning officials kidnapped children in an impoverished rural area in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, People\u2019s Daily, the party\u2019s official newspaper, reported.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>While investigators concluded that the government workers did not engage in \u201cbaby trading,\u201d they did find \u201csevere violations\u201d of regulations, according to the newspaper\u2019s Web site, People\u2019s Daily Online.<\/strong> A Hunan-based Web news portal said the officials were guilty of \u201cnegligence and handling work in a simplistic way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a scandal that has drawn widespread coverage, parents and grandparents claim that officials from Longhui, a county that is administered by Shaoyang, illegally seized at least 16 children between 1999 and 2006 because of allegations that family planning rules were violated. Caixin Century Weekly, a Chinese magazine,  reported in May that some were later adopted by foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>Government investigators examined 14 cases. <strong>In one, parents voluntarily surrendered their child because they were unable to provide care.<\/strong> Five other children were deemed abandoned because the facts about their parentage were hidden by \u201cinvolved persons,\u201d People\u2019s Daily reported. Eight more were taken because they had been illegally adopted by local families.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found no evidence that the city\u2019s orphanage, the Shaoyang Social Welfare Institute, paid kickbacks to officials who delivered babies, according to the newspaper\u2019s report. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/30\/world\/asia\/china-fires-12-government-workers-in-illegal-adoption-scandal.html?_r=1&#038;ref=todayspaper\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve government employees have been fired and stripped of their Communist Party membership after an investigation into allegations that 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