Baby-trafficking suspicions snarl couples' plans, dreams

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) -- Jeff and Karen Fleming left their home in Altoona, Pennsylvania, for Cambodia in early October, confident they soon would be home with their new adopted daughter, whom they located in an orphanage near here.

VIDEO CNN's Mike Chinoy examines trafficking in Cambodian babies and the U.S. Embassy's suspicions of fraud in some adoptions (December 24) Play video (QuickTime, Real or Windows Media)

"We thought we were going to be here a week and then head back home with our daughter Isabelle," Jeff Fleming says.

Instead, the two are still in Cambodia, though their adoption met all of the nation's legal standards. Six other American couples find themselves in the same bind.

The reason? The U.S. Embassy has refused to issue visas for Isabelle and the adoptive children of the other couples. Embassy officials say the infants may not be orphans but were sold to an organized network trafficking in Cambodian children. CNN's Mike Chinoy reports.