baby broker
Britishnoun
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Two years later, in January 2008, Dateline NBC showed hidden camera footage of my adoption facilitator plying his trade in the lobby of a Guatemala City hotel, in a segment titled, "The Baby Broker."
From New York Times
But prosecutors say Theresa Erickson was working the system to become an international baby broker, running a birthing factory out of Ukraine that duped at least a dozen U.S. couples into paying $150,000 for children they thought were being adopted legally.
From Seattle Times
"Independent placement" is not illegal in most states as long as no baby broker receives a profit for arranging the deal, but it can produce painful complications.
From Time Magazine Archive
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