Adoptive Parents Forced to Return Daughter Despite the Fact Birth Mother Doesn't Want Her

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A Chicago couple duped into believing their adoption of a Korean baby was legal are being forced to return the nine-month-old to her country of birth tomorrow despite the fact no-one wants her there. 

Jinshil, 49, a South Korea native who was raised in the U.S., and her husband Christopher Duquet, 55, had desperately wanted a second baby. 

They went to South Korea to find their little girl named Sehwa Kim after adopting their first child in the country.

Sehwa's birth mother, who lives in a homeless shelter for unwed mothers, relinquished all rights to her child in the adoption in June and says she still doesn't want anything to do with the baby. 

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LIVINGSTON MANOR, N.Y. -- When he was growing up in the Bronx, they called him Albert Higgins. It wasn't until decades later he actually learned he might be someone else.

"As a child growing up, I’ve always had a feeling that somehow or another I didn’t belong, lack of pictures in the home, didn’t have a grandmother or a grandfather. I just had a weird feeling," said Higgins.

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