YEREVAN: Syuzan Patvakanyan has been searching for her daughter ever since doctors in post-Soviet Armenia forced her to give her up as a baby nearly two decades ago.
"We realised that the swaddled baby had been sold right out of the hospital," said the distraught woman. The lawyer, Samvel Dilbandyan, confirmed Abramyan had helped to deliver Stella, but could not be expected to remember every birth he was involved in.Armenia has launched an official investigation into what appears to be an underground baby-selling network in the impoverished ex-Soviet country. Armenia's pro-reform leader Nikol Pashinyan has ordered a thorough investigation into the alleged scheme, which he said is believed to have been operating"for many years".
Separately, Armenia's security service said in November it had exposed a criminal network that helped Italians adopt more than 30 babies in recent years. Deputy labour minister Zhanna Andreasyan said officials had started looking more closely into adoptions after noticing that four times as many children went to foreigners rather than to locals.Armenia, a South Caucasus country of fewer than three million people, has also pledged to abolish orphanages by 2023, instead reuniting children with their biological parents or finding new homes for them.
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