Sadness at Samoan adoption scandal sentencing
Updated
It's been one of the saddest stories to come out of the Pacific in recent years.
Between 2002 and 2005, parents in Samoa were tricked by an American adoption agency into giving up their children.
The agency then adopted the children out to unsuspecting families in the US, who paid thousands of dollars for them.
Despite being found guilty, the four Americans involved in the scam have avoided jail.
The leniency of their sentence has come as a great shock to devastated families in Samoa, which still don't have their children back.
Presenter: Kerri Ritchie
Speaker: Keni Lesa, Editor, Samoa Observer; Mike Nyberg, American adoptive father
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