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In October 2002 in Anambra, Geneveve Ekwochi, the

commissioner for women affairs told the press that some

orphanages were selling babies entrusted to their care.

Following an allegation made against one such home, she

Mary’s Perpetual Help Orphanage accused of human trafficking

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010

June 11, 2010

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Despite the fact that Delta State Police Command has pronounced the Mary’s Perpetual Help Orphanage, based in Asaba, illegal for operating babies’ factory that allegedly trades and traffic in children, over 25 children are still at the mercy of the operator.

Russia not satisfied by U.S. "angry mom" sentence

Tue, Aug 30 09:50 AM EDT

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Moscow is not fully satisfied with the suspended sentence given to a U.S. woman who poured spicy sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian-born son, a Kremlin official said Tuesday.

Alaska mother Jessica Beagley was sentenced Monday after she was seen on a television program punishing her seven-year-old son by making him swallow hot sauce and stand in a cold shower.

The case sparked anger in Russia, where there is growing concern about reports of abuse of children adopted from that country.

Die verschwundenen Kinder von El Salvador

29. August 2011 23:29

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Eine Mutter aus San Salvador mit Fotos ihrer seit dem Bürgerkrieg abgängigen Söhne.

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Nederlandse adoptie-ouders Colombia iets hoopvoller

Gepubliceerd op : 29 augustus 2011 - 9:58 pm | door Peter Hooghiemstra (Foto: flickr / Wordyeti)

Lees meer over: adoptiekinderen Nederlanders in Colombia

BOGOTA - Ze zien het leven weer iets zonniger in, de Nederlandse adoptieouders Marco en Brigitta Neervoort. Ze zitten na een op zich leuke vakantie al zes dagen noodgedwongen in een hotel in de Colombiaanse hoofdstad Bogotá, omdat hun achtjarig adoptiezoontje Ruben niet terug naar Nederland mag. Ruben werd ooit door een ander Nederlands stel geadopteerd en daarna - keurig volgens de Nederlandse regels - door Marco en Brigitta overgenomen. Maar de Colombianen erkennen die Nederlandse procedure niet en laten Ruben niet gaan. Toch gloort er hoop, zegt Marco - na een bezoek aan de Nederlandse ambassade. Ruben zelf mocht daar overigens niet bij zijn.

Eerder zag het echtpaar het allemaal somber in. ‘We lopen leeg, financieel, en emotioneel ook’, liet Marco weten in een gesprek met de Wereldomroep. Marco en Brigitta Neervoort uit Velserbroek waren met de achtjarige Ruben en de tienjarige Juan Carlos op vakantie in Colombia om hun twee geadopteerde zoons hun geboorteland te laten zien. Het ging mis toen ze wilden terugvliegen naar Nederland.

US caught up in legal battle over Guatemalan child

Guatemalan judge rules six-year-old girl should be returned to birth mother, but Missouri couple insist adoption was legal

Jo Tuckman in Mexico City and Ewen MacAskill in Washington

The Guardian, Tue 30 Aug 2011 17.59 BST

The US government is caught up in an emotional legal battle over a six-year-old girl said to have been kidnapped from Guatemala in 2006 and later adopted by an American couple.

Adoption case raises fears over trafficking
Geesche Jacobsen
August 30, 2011
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A FOUR-year old girl who had been informally given to a Sydney couple under a traditional Samoan adoption arrangement should return to her parents in Samoa, the Family Court has ruled.

The girl known as ''S'' had been promised to a childless great aunt and her husband before birth, but had lived with her parents and seven siblings in Samoa until she was nearly two years old.

Within days of delivering S to the couple in western Sydney in February 2009, the girl's mother decided she wanted to keep the child. But before she could leave Australia, the couple - known in court as Mr and Ms Tomas - had filed proceedings which stopped S from leaving.

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Two years later, the court has ruled that it would be best for S - a happy and healthy child who related to both sets of parents - to return to Samoa.

But the case raised wider issues about the entry of children into Australia and highlighted tensions between federal immigration and state-based adoption laws, said Associate Professor Jennifer Burn from the faculty of law at UTS.

S had entered Australia on a New Zealand passport, entitling her to live in Australia without further checks.

The mother's lawyers had argued this path could lead to child smuggling or trafficking and said the Tomases had tried to use family law proceedings to ''rectify arrangements that are not acceptable under Australia's immigration and adoption laws''.

Associate Professor Burn said in overseas adoptions cases there should be ''greater scrutiny to ensure that the birth parent freely, without coercion, and in the absence of fraud or any other form of malpractice, surrenders the child for adoption''.

Lawyers for S's mother argued the Samoan ''adoption'' did not meet the requirements for recognition in NSW, but Justice Ian Loughnan found this ''does not make it an illegal adoption''.

The court ruled that S is to be allowed to speak to the Tomases by telephone twice a week.

Justice Loughnan said all the parents would care for the child well but it was in her best interest that she live within Samoan culture.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/adoption-case-raises-fears-over-trafficking-20110829-1jiei.html#ixzz1WROvQDCK