They are caught but this is rare. The sad fact is there are many others. Not just kids. There are stories in all over Africa of some white European man marrying a woman, bringing her to Europe and she's not heard from again. They don't have the resources to get the local police involved.
I've heard African women say they have heard about a neighbor or someone who married some German, Belgian or whatever and after a while the calls and letters stop coming and the communication ends. Forever.
If you are a poor African without money, how do you get justice. Even if and that's a big if, your country has an embassy there, the embassy often: a. doesn't have the staff to check on it properly and/or b. are on some kiss azz relationship with the country due to tourism and aid.
Also, with regards to kids. There is a mechanism in America if you adopt or foster an American child. Someone will visit...sometimes. There is no such mechanism if you adopt a Ugandan child. The American authorities that visit for adoption does not include overseas adoption in most states.
Even within America, if you adopt someone in California and as a 'family' you decide to move to Texas due to whatever, a job. Who follows up? See, how it gets murky? Now, imagine an overseas adoption. The paperwork is in that country. You come to Texas. You get that baby or child an SSN and all that but local authorities don't know you have the child. The child is school age and you register them for school, but so what? Who checks on the child's welfare?
