Myka and James Stauffer adopted a toddler from China and shared every step of the process with their online audience. Except the last.

Myka Stauffer built her YouTube following partly by sharing every step of her journey to adopt a toddler from China. This week, she revealed why he’d gone missing from her videos.

Reuters exposes the largely lawless marketplace of adopted children. Through Yahoo and Facebook groups, parents and others advertise unwanted children and then pass them to strangers.