Newsbreak Online, 1 Jun 2009, Raissa Robles
The Pililla town operation was ostensibly an orphanage called Hope for the Homeless Angels. It was registered with the Pililla government but never registered with the DSWD nor the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as required by law.
Authorities believe that while the babies were in Pililla then later transferred to Jala Jala, they were fattened up, vaccinated, provided genuine or fake birth certificates, then flown to a commercial adoption agency in Singapore owned by Irene Low Ai Lian, who was caught red-handed with the babies in that December raid in Jala Jala.
Low's adoption agency in Singapore, the Fox Family Services Pte. Ltd., is not in the ICAB registry and therefore not authorized to facilitate foreign adoptions of Filipino babies, said Sally Escutin, chief of the DSWD legal service.
“Singapore is a transit point,” she said. Many babies eventually ended up elsewhere like Australia or Germany, she said.
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