Battle Over Internet Bought Twins
from the sounds-like-a-bad-movie dept
This really sounds like a bad movie. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to find out the movie rights were being sold as we speak. A Welsh couple bought some twins they thought were up for adoption over the internet. Unfortunately, another couple in California had already paid for the twins and had been raising them for two months. I'm a little confused about how this all happened, but it sounds like the birth mother had put them up for adoption the second time. She then wanted to "spend one last time" with her babies, but took them and gave them to the other couple - who then raced across the US to Arkansas (something to do with lenient laws) and flew back to the UK with the kids.
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