Prison sentences in Hungarian "pay adoption" cases

A Budapest district court handed out sentences on Friday to birth and adoptive parents who administered the adoption of two children in which money changed hands.

The parents were charged with human trafficking.

The birth parents, who were not first time offenders, received a million forints for their now eight-year-old son and a used car for their now six-year-old son.

They were given prison sentences of two years and two to eight months, while the adoptive father was also sentenced to a year in prison, and the adoptive mother received a suspended prison sentence.

The adoptive father's mother was also found guilty for mediating the money/child exchange.

The court decision is appealable.

The birth mother had nine children in all - six of whom have been adopted - including two children who after years of scandal and legal dispute were allowed to live with the transvestite show business celebrity Terry Black, who was also accused of paying for the adoptions.

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