What began as Erin Siegal's 2009 Master's project as a fellow at the stabile center for investigative reporting at Columbia University's graduate school of journalism evolved into a complex investigation of $30,000 u.s. ...What began as Erin Siegal's 2009 Master's project as a fellow at the stabile center for investigative reporting at Columbia University's graduate school of journalism evolved into a complex investigation of $30,000 u.s. Dollars, four guatemalan "Orphans," One nonprofit evangelical christian adoption agency, a family-run child-trafficking ring, one infant cut from her Unconscious Mother's womb, two tiny missing sisters, and a nine-member tennessee family who believed wholeheartedly in christian love and faith-until the dark side of international adoption shattered their trust.