adoptions. reporter: despite her pushback about her role, deborah paris refers to herself in this e-mail to a reporter as the director of africa program for eac. you were the head of the ugandan adoption program for i was not. margaret cole was. reporter: the owner of european adoption consultants. this is her making a pitch for orphans in panama. they need food. they need medicine. reporter: cole started european adoption consultants back in 1991. since then, the agency has handled intercountry adoptions in more than a dozen countries, including uganda, bulgaria, honduras and haiti. it is based in strongsville, ohio, where we hoped to find margaret cole. so we could ask her some questions too. six different addresses, and no luck. calls to various phone numbers, also were dead end. this home of hers was raided by
i knew where she was supposed to be she was meant to be. reporter: and both families say all of the heartache and outrage lies squarely at the feet of european adoption consultants or eac, which cnn learned is under investigation by the state department and the fbi. but was eac part of a scheme to traffic children for profit? or perhaps were they simply unaware what was going on in uganda? and the questions for the agency don t end there. how could jessica davis and stacy wells have ended up with children who may never have actually been orphaned? that s what we wanted to know. and it led us here to lake dallas, texas, behind these gates lives the head of the eac s african adoption program. but getting her to answer our questions was a challenge. i m trying to find deborah paris. deborah paris is her name. after trying to reach her by phone, numerous times, we
they believe both girls were part of a wider scheme selling children from uganda so american families. both families reunited the girls with their families in uganda. was it hard to leave her? yes it was very hard. she still felt like my daughter. she still does. i knew she was where she was meant to be. and both families say all of the heart ache lies squarely at the feet of the european adoption consultants, which is under investigation by both the state department and the fbi. but was eac part of a scheme to traffic children for profit or perhaps were they simply unaware of what was going on in uganda. and the questions for the agency don t end there. how could jessica davis and
uganda. stacy we always told me she and her husband spent their life th- or the european adoption consultants. the lawyer in uganda who handled these adoptions also has not been charged. meanwhile, it is possible, anderson, that the adoption agency was simply negligent here, unaware based on lack of background checks that the children it was getting from uganda were being traskd. in other words, it could be that eac is also a victim of this apparent margaret cole would respond to our request for comment. in the meantime, the investigation is ongoing. anderson. it s an incredible storyment thanks vep. we ll continue to follow it. up next, a preview of anthony bourdain s next stop. that schwa. oh, not so fast, carl.