Four more suspects have been arraigned over a child trafficking syndicate at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital in Nairobi following an expose that revealed the underworld of baby-selling activities within Kenya’s capital.

The police had vowed to hunt down the syndicate, whose undertakings involved selling babies in the pretext of helping individuals not willing to go through a formal adoption process.

According to the police, the criminals targeted public hospitals and children's homes within Nairobi in the trade.

On Thursday, Dr Musa Mohammed Ramadhan, Beatrice Njambi Njoroge, Selina Awour Adundo and Juliana Mbete Kimwele appeared in court to answer to the charges of child trafficking crime.

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Rolson Price still scans Facebook for her picture. He’s seen her occasionally, at the periphery of someone else’s photo, instantly recognisable.

But he’s never met her, and concedes he never will.

He still doesn’t know his daughter’s name.

Price is one of dozens of victims of an extraordinary and brazen human trafficking ring, operating for years across the Marshall Islands archipelago and three states of the United States of America. The scheme involved pregnant Marshallese women being lured to the United States and enticed, with offers of $10,000 and the promise of a new life in America, to give up their babies, which were then adopted out to US couples willing to pay four times that amount for a child.

Paul Petersen, a 45-year-old former elected county official in Arizona, pleaded guilty to human smuggling, conspiracy to smuggle illegal aliens, and fraud in a US federal court. He has been sentenced to six years in prison, and faces further jail time still on more charges.

Survivors adopted from mother and baby homes have said many of them left without their births being registered and some with the signatures on their adoption papers being forged.

Others only became aware of the fact as adults that they had been the subject of secret vaccine trials while babies in the facilities in Cork and Tipperary.

The revelation came as Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, remained the major focus of revelations about the appalling treatment of young women and their babies.

With Tuam in Galway and Bessborough in Cork, Sean Ross Abbey ranked among the most notorious of Ireland’s mother and baby homes.

Sean Ross Abbey was also at the centre of the story of Philomena Lee whose campaign to trace her son – sent to the US for adoption in the 1950s – was the basis of a BAFTA-winning film.

Following a similar investigation, the Netherlands recently suspended all foreign adoptions.

Falsification of documents, lost files, victims of child trafficking: a group of people adopted abroad and adoptive parents is asking the French government for an investigation to shed light on "illegal practices" observed during international adoptions.

"We, adopted people and French adoptive parents, ask the government and parliamentarians to set up a commission of inquiry so that illegal practices in international adoption since the 1970s are noted", write the members of this recent collective for the Recognition of illicit adoptions in France (Raif) in a petition addressed to the National Assembly and published on the Change.org site.

Mali, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Peru: illegal adoptions? Stolen children?

In recent years, several children adopted in France, now adults, have testified in books or in the media of difficulties in accessing their origins, even of fraudulent procedures during their adoption.

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The SASB, Belgian branch of the ISS is called upon in personal or family situations requiring coordinated intervention between two or more countries. The service can be challenged either by courts, social services/lawyers or individuals. When the request comes from abroad it is transmitted via the SSI network .

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The service carries out, sometimes in partnership, social studies whose purpose is to obtain a social report.

From: CHARLOTTE WEATHERSBY

Date: 5/13/2006 5:26:59 AM

To: Romania_Adoption@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Romania_Adoption] Vali Nash a clever swindler, impostor doing business with adoption

I believe it. I have a child that was originally adopted from Romania by two pedophiles. They got scared and relinquished him. Because he was diagnosed with CP they thought he was too stupid to tell. To make a long story short he has a high IQ is doing well now and will testify upon turning 18. I am glad that adoption is shut down right now. We have to find a way to keep these children safe even in their own countries though and that it what I am brainstorming about.

Nederlandse 'non' die verdacht werd van babyroof uit Chili lijkt dossiers te hebben vernietigd

De zoektocht van Chileense geadopteerden naar hun biologische familie dreigt een onmogelijke missie te worden. Bijna alle dossiers zijn spoorloos of mogelijk vernietigd. De vrouw die veel adopties regelde, weigerde tot haar overlijden in januari informatie te geven.

Tonny van der Mee 23-06-23, 07:30 Laatste update: 23-06-23, 08:14

Ruim tweehonderd Chileense kinderen zijn sinds begin jaren 70 in Nederland (illegaal) geadopteerd. De Nederlandse Truus Kuijpers, die ruim 25 jaar kindertehuis Las Palmas in Santiago runde, was betrokken bij zo’n honderd adopties.

Geadopteerden beschuldigen haar van kinderroof. Ze zou onder meer baby's zonder medeweten en toestemming van de moeders uit ziekenhuizen hebben meegenomen naar Las Palmas voor adoptie. Ze is in 2019 verhoord door justitie in Chili, die onderzoek doet naar de illegale adopties van 20.000 kinderen in de jaren 70 en 80.

Recognising that the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding” - Preamble of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

What is it like to grow up and raise in Amsterdam? This time: Shiva (46) and Dharan Mulder (13). 'I was once 'given away'. When I had children, there was a very strong feeling: I would never do this with my children.'

Yuki HochgemuthOctober 18, 2023 , 3:00 am

Dharan: “I really learned how to make raps from my childhood. My father also used to write lyrics and often showed clips of them. He always made a rap for his company.”

“I thought that was really cool, I wanted that too, so we started making more and more clips together. That didn't happen online, it was just for ourselves. Other people often said we should put that on YouTube.”

Shiva: “My wife and I used to not want to put our children on social media. When we started making clips for his raps, it was just for ourselves. Dharan wanted it to be online. I've always said: you have to have something to say.”

https://m.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20231126_97798161?fbclid=IwAR1VnLEcjpqCqlomi-g54VQ-z1GZSeLW0v579vZolR2Z0IzAgkyIct6yMDs&articlehash=VN%2BZl3h3qtQdOYSEythM60zaNISlJiPRWUABuSrPyHOucvlj7iQlxSQ88v%2BfJ8kaVet0TPw7HYMIjHFMSn3gZa8a7H1KtbSS3zGcUJApMm7es0qOuqMvubGn6i%2BddSrMZZ3lXGwlQ6ipLsbK2kLXTCY8AQAa8dbrqL3cp97ThcBaq5W7robk5%2BpvQoznDEJM8TZ2KPg4ZNmQAob%2FOsH%2FgHfPu01P3d8GHe3utjhLxoCGXdC1fYUEidZmBVkjMpt5TbJ%2BMXn2KPWy%2FtruCdImKh09XVpieiWO9fJ2cHlJbOxQjjSlPTup0jnKn95yROUbZkfHOyl8QPLhw0jxcYG3cg%3D%3D

There should be an independent reporting point for abuses in intercountry adoptions, says Miranda Ntirandekura Aerts , former member of the expert panel on intercountry adoption.

After hearings in the Flemish Parliament, just before the previous elections, it was decided to put together an expert panel that would examine intercountry adoption. Therapist Miranda Ntirandekura Aerts (39), adopted from Rwanda, was part of it. She hoped to help initiate a real paradigm shift.

'For years the government has been saying that it will do things differently and better. Scandals appear in the press, hearings follow in the Flemish Parliament, the minister proposes a new decree, and after a while the whole cycle starts again. That's why we suggested pressing the pause button.'

Politics did not choose that. Minister Hilde Crevits (CD&V) has ready a new adoption decree.