7 Texas Kids Found in Nigeria Orphanage
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HOUSTON - Seven Texas children were discovered abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage, suffering from disease and malnutrition, and have been brought back to the United States.    Child Protective Services, which received emergency custody of the children Monday, is investigating accusations that the children's adoptive mother abandoned them in Nigeria in October and later went to work in Iraq as a private contractor...
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Nigerian gunmen have released a British toddler who was kidnapped in the country's oil-rich south, a regional official said Sunday.
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Â· Child hostage in Nigeria in 'good health' say police Â· Plan to swap girl for father rejected by officials
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More than 100,000 children who have been abused or neglected by their biological parents are languishing in foster care, waiting to be adopted. The explanations are practically universal.
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HOUSTON The lawyer for the adoptive mother of seven children found malnourished and sick in a Nigerian orphanage is defending the woman&#39;s actions.
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Seven Texas children were recovering on  Tuesday after surviving for 10 months in a Nigerian shack when  their adoptive mother abandoned them, child welfare authorities  said on Tuesday.
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A judge on Wednesday ordered seven young children removed from their home after authorities discovered it was infested with rats and filled with garbage, including stacks of dirty diapers nearly 4 feet high in closets.
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Four more people have been abducted in the Niger Delta, authorities said on Monday, underscoring insecurity in Nigeria's oil-producing region hours after a 3-year-old British girl was freed by her kidnappers.
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A Nigerian state official confirms that at least seven people have been executed, despite earlier denials.
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Nigerian kidnappers have  demanded 10 million naira ($78,600) for a 3-year-old boy they  snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta,  relatives of the toddler said on Friday.
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A judge on Wednesday ordered seven children removed from their rat-infested home strewn with dirty diapers after the mother's miscarriage led to the discovery of the dead fetus in a baby wipe box in the refrigerator.
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DALLAS - Seven Texas children are back home in Houston after being taken to Nigeria by their American adoptive mother and apparently abandoned for 10 months, left to beg for money to buy food.
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They are the hidden side of the government's stepped-up efforts to track down and deport illegal immigrants: Toddlers stranded at day care centers or handed over to ill-equipped relatives. Siblings suddenly left in charge of younger brothers and sisters.
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More than 20 boys are found starved and neglected at a government-run orphanage in Iraq.
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A mother and her three children were found slain Monday in a West Texas town. A man who was scheduled to take the children to school discovered the bodies in a Lubbock apartment, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported.
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AMSTERDAM (BBC News) - Police in the Netherlands say they have cracked a crime ring which allegedly trafficked Nigerian children into the West to work as sex slaves. At least 19 people were arrested in the Netherlands and five other countries including the U.S. and Britain.  Traffickers used voodoo to gain a hold over children before smuggling them abroad in a racket which exploited the asylum system, police say.  Scores of underage Nigerians, mainly girls, may have been trafficked.  Dutch authorities had been investigating the disappearance of 140 Nigerian children from asylum-seeker holding centres since January 2006. Several of the children were later found working as prostitutes in France, Italy and Spain, according to Dutch police.
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The United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) on Wednesday appealed for $576.1 million to help  millions of children in countries in crisis, ranging from Sudan  to Ethiopia and Angola.