Bucharest - Romania's chief prosecutor said yesterday illegal adoptions of babies were still widespread despite recent legislation cracking down on unscrupulous baby-traders.
"In 1996, when I took over I found that many adoptions were illegal and the fate of Romanian babies adopted by foreign foster parents ambiguous," Mr Nicolae Cochinescu told a meeting of leading prosecutors. He said a 1990 child adoption law, passed a year after the fall of Ceausescu, had opened the way for international adoptions but most were illegal. - (Reuter)
