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'We didn't know we had adopted a stolen baby': The tragedy of a family trafficked in Sri Lanka

2022-08-19T04:47:47.291Z


THE PARISIAN WEEKEND. In 2018, Véronique Piaser-Moyen and her husband discovered that their daughter, adopted in Sri Lanka in 1985, was one of


The walls of the living room may be lined with her naïve canvases in bright colors, Véronique Piaser-Moyen broods in her small apartment in the historic center of Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne).

Placed on the library saturated with essays and Guides du routard, a pale pink ceramic Buddha brought back from Sri Lanka stirs up trying memories.

This statuette, the painter and her husband bought it during their first trip to this teardrop-shaped island, located off the coast of India.

A trip made in January 1985, for the sole purpose of finalizing the adoption of a little Sri Lankan, then a few days old.

Legally, they thought...

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