Adoption agencies in Singapore are expected to carry out due diligence to ensure that the children they bring in are of «correct background and origin», Minister of State for Social and Family Development Goh Pei Ming said on Wednesday (Jan 14).Goh was responding to a parliamentary question from Workers' Party chair Sylvia Lim on concerns over Singaporeans' confidence in adoption processes, despite the affected parents having followed all legal requirements amid the alleged Indonesian baby-trafficking case. «I have constituents affected by this situation and they have already been caring for these babies for more than a year, and this uncertainty is a torture to them,» said Lim, who also wanted to know how long investigations are expected to take. The exchange in parliament follows reports by Indonesian media last September that police in Indonesia were working with Singapore authorities to investigate an alleged baby trafficking syndicate operating out of West Java.  Read more