GMA: Internet Baby Broker Defends Herself

March 5 -- Kimberly and Belinda, awaiting their fate with a British foster family who wants to adopt them, may be the only ones who haven't heard Tina Johnson vilified.

From the moment the first international headlines ran: "Babies Sold Twice on the Internet," Johnson has been blamed as the baby broker who took money and handed over 6 month old twins not once, but twice.

But in an exclusive interview with Robin Roberts that appeared on Good Morning America, Johnson said that she is not in the business of selling babies.

"People need to have a better perception of adoption," Johnson said. "It's not about baby selling. It's about the services and the time that goes into it."

Though she understand from the public's point of view that it seems like babies are being brokered, people should understand that adoption is also a profession in which people expect to earn a living.

Work for Free?

"Adoption professionals that you could talk to, other facilitators, other agencies, other attorneys, they're all charging money but are they selling children? I mean, you know, they're charging money," Johnson said. "Nobody's in adoption working for free. I feel like people somehow expect that if you're working in adoption and you're working with children that you should just work for free."

Johnson says it's the children that are most important to her. The 34-year-old high school dropout started working in the world of private adoptions three years ago, after spending time volunteering with children.

Her main goal: to work with and place minority babies that are less sought after by adoptive parents.

Johnson's attorney, who was at her side during the interview with GMA, pointed out that Johnson is not in any legal trouble.

"Ms. Johnson, and she wanted everybody to know this, did not do anything illegal," said the attorney, Tony Capozzola. "Nor unethical and she's not at this point the subject of any investigation."

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