Which is based in ohio, told the adoptive parents mata s father had died and her mother neglected her. after mata had moved in with her adoptive parents jessica and adam davis they began to fear that mata had been trafficked. jessica reached out to our producers, we did some digging. our investigation found that children were being taken from their homes in uganda on the promise of better schooling, placed into orphanages even though they weren t orphans and then sold for as much as $15,000 each to unsuspecting american families. our investigation discovered that multiple families were duped this way. mata thought she d lost her birth mom forever but as we told you in 2017 her adoptive mom with help of a grassroots organization got her back to uganda and her birth mother. tonight there is justice for mata and other children. the u.s. justice department says debra paris who helped run the so-called adoption agency and handled mata s case and others has pleaded guilty to federal charges
Mata and other children. the u.s. justice department says debra paris who helped run the so-called adoption agency and handled mata s case and others has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a first of all and bribery scheme involving adopted children from uganda and poland. paris will be sentenced in march. as for her two alleged co-conspirators, margaret cole, that s her, the owner of the now closed agency, faces trial in february on charges tied to polish adoptions. and prosecutors say a third defendant, a ugandan attorney who helped in the scheme, remains at large. the news continues. want to hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. chris? all right. thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo and welcome to prime time. you know, we have four big legal cases in different parts of the country, and the reactions to them will be the measure of where we are as a nation. i ve got the qanon shaman s lawyer here. he s going to be with us in just a moment. because his cl