Emphasis Preaching Journal

In May 1995, a Greek television station broke the news that in the 1950s, while still recovering from the dislocations of World War II and the Greek Civil War which followed, hundreds, maybe thousands, of poverty-stricken couples and unwed mothers left their infants in children's shelters or hospitals for safekeeping. Later, when they tried to get them back, they were told that the children were gone or had died. In fact, many of the children had been sold in America and other countries by lawyers who charged steep black market fees.