Fraud allegations rock South Korean adoptees and families

FILE - Peg Reif holds pictures of her children adopted from South Korea in the 1980s in her home Dec. 17, 2024, in Platteville, Wis. FILE - Nicole Motta, whose Korean name is Jang Hyeon-jung, fills out paperwork for a DNA test in Seoul, South Korea, May 31, 2024, as she and her birth father are reunited for the first time since she was adopted by a US family in 1985.

Her greatest fear, dormant for decades, came rushing back in an instant: had she adopted and raised a kidnapped child?