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Blair slams sale of babies
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BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday denounced the sale of American twin babies over the Internet as “disgusting” while authorities probed the legal status of the girls now in Britain.
The British couple locked in a tug-of-love fight with a Californian couple over the six-month-old twins said their next step would be to apply for British citizenship for the children.
The Californian couple fought an angry war of words with the British couple in a live television link-up on Tuesday night, saying: “They have no right to take those kids off us.”
Welsh couple Alan and Judith Kilshaw flew to California after paying an Internet firm ￡8,200 (US$12,300) to adopt the twins. They were told the girls, Kimberley and Belinda, were given up for adoption by their natural mother, Tranda Wecker, of St Louis, Missouri.
But the Internet firm — Caring Heart Adoption — had already sold the twins to a California couple, Richard and Vickie Allen, who had paid US$6,000 for them and raised them for two months.
But, suffering a change of heart, the girls' natural mother told the Allens she wanted two days to say a final farewell to her twins — and then handed them to the Kilshaws in a San Diego hotel.
The British couple, pursued by the Allens, raced across country to Arkansas, where adoption laws are more lax. They then flew back to their farmhouse in north Wales with the girls.
The Kilshaws are being investigated by local authorities, who have demanded copies of adoption papers.(SD-Agencies)
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