A new documentary will look into the questionable activities of the lady who assisted Angelina Jolie in the adoption of her son Maddox.

In her documentary The Stolen Children, filmmaker Elizabeth Jacobs, 21, will explore the idea that “poor Cambodian families are preyed on by baby recruiters.”

Hundreds of American parents hired Lauryn Galindo to assist with adoption from Cambodia, seemingly ignorant of her possibly unethical actions.

Actress Angelina Jolie, pictured left, and her son Maddox, pictured right (Image: Getty)

Poor families were allegedly misled into selling their children for adoption, something Galindo has always denied and for which he has never been convicted.

Maddox’s “orphan status” at the time of his adoption in 2002 was questioned, with Cambodian child care professionals claiming he was sold for $100 by a poor mother.

“I’m sure that this child was not a real orphan and was not abandoned,” stated Kek Galibru, the president of the human rights organization Licadho, which examined the adoption controversy at the time.

Angelina Jolie, a happy mother of six, has stated that she did her research to ensure Maddox was an orphan and had not been abducted from living parents.

She said: “I would never rob a mother of her child. I can only imagine how dreadful that would feel.”

Jacobs, a University of Massachusetts film and marketing student, is determined to learn the truth regarding Galindo’s adoptions.

She plans to visit Cambodia later this year in the hopes of learning more about her own adoption, which might help her better comprehend hundreds of others who were adopted around the same time, including Maddox.

Elizabeth, 21, was adopted and is from the same generation as Maddox, 19.

According to the Sun, Galindo handled half of Cambodian adoptions to the United States between 1997 and 2001 (about 800 out of 1600).

Actor Brad Pitt, pictured right, actress Angelina Jolie, pictured centre, and son Maddox Jolie-Pitt, pictured left

Galindo and her sister Lynn Devin were both slapped with a $150,000 financial penalty for fabricating paperwork to acquire US visas for “orphans” barely a year after Maddox’s adoption.

Galindo and Devin managed an adoption business called Seattle International Adoptions at the time, and Galindo and Devin were arrested shortly after Jolie adopted her son Maddox.

In 2004, Galindo was sentenced to 18 months in jail for the same offense and money laundering.

However, he has since been released and now resides in Hawaii.

Despite pleading guilty, Galindo said in an interview with The Sun that she had done nothing wrong.

“Absolutely not,” she stated. “Every single day, I wake up and I want to dedicate my body, my speech, my mind, my actions, to doing the best I can to being a force for good.

Angelina Jolie, pictured second from left, with children Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, pictured left, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt, pictured centre, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, pictured second from right, and Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt, pictured right (Image: Getty)

“I consider myself a champion for the children, I’m in touch with many of the children and happy to help if Elizabeth has questions and ways for me to help her, I certainly will.

She added: “But she has not contacted me.”

Galindo further claims that several investigations regarding Maddox’s adoption were conducted, and that he was not kidnapped from his original parents.

“I have no reason to believe that there’s anything about Maddox. They were very careful, especially given his celebrity parent.

“I think that was double-checked, and I know that Angelina was not in the country during those investigations, because she was making the movie Beyond Borders in Namibia.

“So there was no interference by [the] adoptive parent, and nor was I involved in the investigations in any way.”

When the controversy surfaced, the US government and a number of other nations halted adoptions from Cambodia, notwithstanding Jolie’s claims that she was unaware of the illicit trade. There’s no way to know if Maddox was an orphan.

According to accusations made in her court proceedings, Galindo, a U.S. citizen and former hula dancer, may have collected as much as $9.2 million from adoptive parents.