While looking through local historical data regarding our common topic here I found this very interesting article. It details a "society" that kidnapped children and sold them under the guise of being an adoption agency. Celebrities, politicians and religious leaders were implicated and named. This was made possible in a large extent due to nationwide state laws sealing the legal history of all adopted children ie original parents. Here are some excerpts from the very informative and well researched article:

https://nypost.com/2017/06/17/this-woman-stole-children-from-the-poor-to-give-to-the-rich/

Babies were snatched off the streets by strangers in passing cars. Or taken from day-care centers or church basements where they played. Or stolen from hospitals, right after birth, passed from doctor to nurse to a uniformed “social worker” — before vanishing in an instant.

Some were dropped into dismal orphanages; others were sent to a new family, their identities wiped, no questions asked. Most would never see their birth parents again.

While it sounds like something out of Dickens or the Brothers Grimm, this happened in the United States in the 20th century. Thousands of times....

The article ends with this paragraph. It was written by the new York post in December of 2017 btw:

For Wingate, this story “still matters today, because there are still so many kids that need that one advocate, that one place to be, that one person who will step in.” She continues, “We do have to still be watching for things that are not aboveboard or are corrupt, where children are being used for profits of one kind or another. That’s on all of us, as a public.”