of babies for as little as US$20 or deception of birthparents into relinquishing physical custody are systematically employed. One particular case that gained media attention focused on a child laundering scheme run by an American woman named Lauryn Galindo. Galindo was prosecuted in the United States and convicted of "material misrepresentations as to the orphan status and identities" of infant adoptees over the period of 1997 through 2001. Galindo was sentenced to 18 months in prison, a fine, and required community service. Currently, the United States, formerly one of the most common destinations for Cambodian adoptees, no longer processes adoptions from Cambodia. Sri Lanka In the period of 1970 to 2017, 11,000 babies from Sri Lanka were exported to Western Countries, mainly those in Europe, including The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany. The Netherlands received the most children, including over 4,000 babies. Due to poverty and other social and cultural problems, many Sri Lankan families were forced to give up their children for adoption. Adoption agencies and certain notable people were identified as intermediaries in the adoption process. As the demand was high, many adoption agencies and the intermediates associated with them started "baby farms" where birth mothers and stolen infants were held. Many hospitals in Sri Lanka, especially those in districts like Ratnapura District, Galle District, Kandy District, Colombo District, Kegalle District and Kalutara District, either stole infants or coerced birth mothers into putting their children up for adoption. Government officials, tour guides, lawyers, and medical staff have all been implicated in unethical international adoption scandals. The babies were bought from mothers for around $30 by intermediates and sold to foreign couples for double the amount. After the year 2000, many babies who were adopted out of the country returned to Sri Lanka to meet their biological parents, to find that the documents used in their adoptions had been falsified and the biological parents they had hoped to meet were not real. In 2017, after the Dutch TV program Zembla revealed the adoption fraud, both the Dutch and Sri Lankan governments opened investigations, during which the Sri Lankan Government admitted that the baby farms were present. Many additional adoptees have since gone in front of the Court to ask for investigations about their adoptions. See also Child-selling Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry