Arizona official accused of human smuggling via a Marshall Islands adoption scheme

An Arizona county assessor is accused of human smuggling as part of a scheme that involved more than 40 pregnant women from the Marshall Islands brought to the United States to give up their babies for adoption, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Paul D. Petersen, an adoption lawyer licensed in Utah and Arizona and elected Maricopa County assessor, was arrested Tuesday night in Arizona, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes told reporters. He faces 11 felony counts in Utah, including human smuggling, sale of a child and communications fraud. He also faces fraud, conspiracy, theft and forgery charges in Arizona.

No wonder Republicans are so against abortion. It cuts into their profits.

Land of opportunity

Who would think this is what they should do with their life? Are these people hell spawned?

THIS is exactly what 'they' have done to the missing children across the border...sold them to rich white folks.

Yep, of course he’s a Republican.

Tony Enos

Moose Enos

What scum.

It's Arizona so I barely raised an eyebrow.

😡🤢😡

GOP family values strike again.

EboneeStevenson Seriously, how do people get into stuff like this?

Imagine that ...

It would have been easier to drop by Planned Parenthood and pay a few for their babies!!!

Whoa

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