Angelina Jolie’s son Maddox kidnapped from his biological family in Cambodia?

Angelina Jolie ‘s long-standing adoption was suddenly brought up again.

An upcoming documentary highlighting the potential unethical practices used in Cambodian adoptions will answer the question of whether Angelina Jolie’s son Maddox “may have been kidnapped . ” or not. Jolie adopted Maddox from Cambodia in 2002, with the help of adoption agency Lauryn Galindo – who was jailed in 2004 for “falsifying documents to apply for a US visa for an orphan”.

21-year-old filmmaker Elizabeth Jacobs – who also used Galindo to facilitate the adoption of their child from Cambodia – will reconsider the claim that “poor families in Cambodia are exploited by child recruiters.” hunted,” in her upcoming documentary, “ The Stolen Children .”

The Sun has revealed that Jacobs – a film and marketing student at the University of Massachusetts, is determined to uncover the truth about Galindo’s adoption. The article further reports that, between 1997 and 2001, half of the adoptions from Cambodia to the United States – about 800 out of 1,600 – came through Galindo.

At the time, Galindo and her sister Lynn Devin ran an adoption agency called Seattle International Adoptions and shortly after Jolie adopted her son Maddox, Galindo and Devin faced criminal charges.

Devin faces a $150,000 fine, while Galindo is jailed for falsifying the names, dates of birth and places of birth of the Cambodian children she helped to survive. with American families. The incident occurred two years after Jolie and her then-husband, Billy Bob Thornton, won full custody of Maddox.

When the scandal broke and the US government and several other countries shut down adoptions from Cambodia, Jolie said she knew nothing about the illegal trade. There is no evidence that Maddox is not an orphan.

Jolie asserted at the time that she had done her best to ensure Maddox did not have a living biological mother in Cambodia and that she would “never take away a mother from her child.”

Galindo told The Sun in a recent statement that she would be happy to answer any questions Jacob may have, but confirmed the young filmmaker has not yet reached out to her. Galindo added she has “no reason to believe” that Maddox’s adoption was unethical.

MailOnline has contacted representatives for Jolie and Jacobs for comment.

Jacobs’ parents Karen, 60, and Erich, 56, still have their adoption papers, but looking through them last year they discovered Galindo’s name was stamped on the papers. sheet. According to Jacobs, the documents show discrepancies, as the orphanage’s documents show a different date of birth, while the government documents show a different date.

Karen claims Galindo never revealed any information to her about Jacobs’ biological parents, telling Karen that they died in a flood.

Jolie and ex-husband Brad Pitt share joint custody of their six children, twins Vivienne and Knox, 12, Shiloh, 15, Maddox, 19, Zahara, 16, and Pax, 17 years old. Maddox was adopted from an orphanage in Cambodia, while Jolie adopted Zahara in Ethiopia and Pax in Vietnam.

In 2017, a Cambodian aid worker claimed the document Jolie used to adopt her eldest son contained false information. Mounh Sarath, 53, wrote that he was Maddox Jolie-Pitt’s father on the boy’s adoption papers, promoting the transfer of the boy to Jolie’s care in 2003.

Despite the claims, there is no evidence that Jolie and her then-husband, Billy Bob Thornton, who adopted Maddox, knew that Sarath had done what he alleged.

At the time of Maddox’s adoption, the United States had imposed tougher restrictions on adoptions from Cambodia due to human trafficking concerns.