Shelley Muntau and Shelley Fred Muntau

federal government: He is now three-and-a-half years old, according to CTV. I’m so relieved, it just been so long, said Shelley Muntau, breaking down into tears after picking up her son for the first time on Canadian soil Wednesday. Although legally adopted by Shelley and Fred Muntau, red tape prevented them from bringing home Pedro since he was just in infant. In 2013, the federal government in the Democratic Republic of Congo abruptly halted foreign adoptions over unfounded reports some children had been mistreated or abandoned by their new parents – or that others had been sold to homosexuals. All they needed was an exit letter to get on that plane, Shelley Muntau says of the children caught in the middle of the process. Around 1,000 foreign adoptions were affected by the bureaucratic halt, including hundreds in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.