Patrick Trueman, a former Justice Department lawyer responsible for prosecuting child exploitation, says there's little chance as many as a dozen babies bought in Mexico and sold in the U.S. will be returned to their parents. Mexican police have arrested Amado Torres Vega, 64, of Harlingen, Texas, and charged him with paying nine Mexican women for their babies under the pretense of giving the children to adoptive families in the United States. But the San Antonio-based adoption agency Vega claims to have been working with says they had never heard of him. Patrick Trueman, former chief of the Justice Department's Child Exploitation Section, says children caught up in similar schemes are usually either placed through illegal adoptions or kept as slaves for sex trafficking. "I've personally talked to a sex trafficker who would visit families in Mexico, dressed as a nun with another trafficker dressed as a priest, trying to talk parents into giving up their children to go to a school in the United States, promising a free education with the visit of the child once a year to the parents until he or she is educated," says Trueman "But, instead, the

children go into sex trafficking." Trueman says the adoption scams often auction off the children. Prospective bidders pay a fee to participate in the auction, and the child trafficker keeps all of the fees and the money from the winning bid. The former federal prosecutor says, unfortunately, attempts to return these children to their parents do not stand much chance of success. Read On

Proponents of condom-based sex education may outspend American parents, but the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) is working to ensure that liberal groups don't outnumber them. Last week, the NAEA launched the powerful Parents for Truth campaign, which is working to recruit moms and dads to lobby their local schools to adopt abstinence curriculum and elect leaders who promote it. In the first phase of the project, the NAEA hopes to involve at least one million parents. The new website, www.parentsfortruth.org, has dozens of resources for families, including a new three-minute video highlighted by Sunday's Washington Post that exposes the radical curriculum now in place in thousands of U.S. schools. Get involved! Log on today and discover how you can take back your children's classrooms with the truth!