The AP reports on the case against Casa Quivira, an adoption agency in Guatemala, that has been charged with human trafficking and fraud.

From the AP:

wo Guatemalan lawyers retained by an adoption agency that has sent scores of children to the U.S. have been charged with fraud and human trafficking, their attorneys said on Monday.

Vilma Zamora and Sandra Leonardo, lawyers for Casa Quivira, an adoption agency under investigation for using fraudulent documents, were notified of a judge’s charges against them Monday, their attorneys told The Associated Press.

Milton Miranda, Leonardo’s lawyer, said they would appeal.

The article highlights the fact that 1 out of every 100 babies born in Guatemala ends up growing up in the United States.

Prosecutors describe their probe of Casa Quivira, considered Guatemala’s best adoption agency, as their first serious attempt to investigate a $100 million industry that has made tiny Guatemala the largest source of adopted U.S. babies after China.

Some 29,400 Guatemalan children have been delivered to U.S. homes since 1990, so many that one of every 100 Guatemalan babies born each year has been growing up in an American home.

Globally, Illegal adoptions are a $1.3 billion industry.