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  • US kids 'abandoned' in Africa

    08/20/2004 10:13:53 AM PDT · by Ironfocus · 10 replies · 1,132+ views
    Ibadan - Allegedly abandoned by their American mother as she took up military contract work in Iraq, seven American children left behind for months in Africa begged for change for food and shuttled from a stranger's care to a state-run orphanage, recalled Nigerians who crossed their paths. Ranging in age from seven to 16, the Texas children arrived late last month at their last stop in Africa, the government orphanage in this Nigerian market city of millions bustling with traders and crippled and leprous beggars. By then, a step away from rescue, the American children were skinny, mosquito-bitten and suffering...