North Texas adoption attorney accused of trying to buy pregnant inmates' babies

An attorney and executive director of a North Texas adoption agency was arrested last week on child trafficking charges, accused of trying to buy the babies of pregnant people in Tarrant County detention, according to the sheriff and jail records.

Jody Hall, 68, was booked into Hays County Jail on July 23 on two counts of sale or purchase of a child, a third-degree felony. Hall is an attorney and owns Adoptions International, a nonprofit founded in 1996 and currently based in Richardson, according to public filings.