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Adoption shakedown - childless couple left without money and without baby

By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent

They were married 10 years ago. When the wife couldn't get pregnant she began fertility treatments.

"We underwent numerous treatments. Every time we asked about adoption we were told to try another treatment," the husband says bitterly.

Israelis Can Now Adopt Children from India.

Publication: Israel Faxx

Date: Wednesday, November 12 2003

By Ruth Sinai, Ha'aretz Correspondent

Israelis may now adopt children from India, according to an agreement reached about a month ago between the two countries. It is expected to help many Israeli families, as there are few states from which children can be adopted.

Gary Goodyear Continues To Deny Knowledge of Imagine Adoption Agency/Constant Energy Relationship

No Involvement or Knowledge In Dubious Relationship

By David Terry

Goodyear At CRC-IRAP Press Conference

Goodyear: I Knew And I Know Nothing About This Situation

ADOPTION AGENCY COLLAPSE: Affected families meet in London, join forces to battle to complete international adoptions

Parents ready to fight

Patrick Maloney

The London Free Press

July 20, 2009

UPDATE Traffic with ovules at Sabyc clinic in Bucharest. Three persons have been detained. Israeli Foreign Affairs minister tries to have them released

de Ella Moroiu, transl/adapt. C.B. HotNews.ro

Luni, 20 iulie 2009, 11:40 English | Bucharest

UPDATE 2 Bucharest Tribunal issued three preventive arrest mandates in the case of ovules traffic. Sabyc clinic owner Harry Mironescu, his son Yair Miron, medical resident, and Cecilia Borzea - responsible for the relationship with the clients - are the tree to momentarily face jail.

Tens of persons are currently heard by the DIICOT prosecutors in a case regarding traffic with ovules. Sabyc clinic doctors, employees and clients have been called by the Investigation Directorate for Organised Crime and Terrorism Offences (Direc?ia de Investigare a Infrac?iunilor de Criminalitate Organizat? ?i Terorism) to explain their actions. It's been ten years now since the clinic fertilises in vitro, without the authorisation of the National Agency for Transplant. Three persons have been detained and 30 more are currently investigated.

US residents charged with kidnapping Mexican baby

(AP) – 7 hours ago

MONTERREY, Mexico — Two U.S. residents have been charged with kidnapping a 3-month-old Mexican girl and trying to smuggle her out of the country.

Nuevo Leon state prosecutors say the married couple was caught after they tried to register the baby as their own at the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey. If convicted, they face up to 50 years in prison.

The suspects, Eduardo Martinez and Maria Eva Garcia, are Mexican citizens who live in Los Angeles. The consulate confirmed Monday that they are legal U.S. residents.

Online databank to streamline adoption process

Himanshi Dhawan, TNN 21 July 2009, 03:00am IST

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NEW DELHI: With over 6,000 children in the country waiting to be adopted, the government plans to put in place an online centralised databank to

fast-track the process of adoption.

What went wrong with adoption group?

July 18, 2009

The damage caused by the bankruptcy of a Cambridge-based international adoption agency this week cannot be reckoned in dollars alone. It must be measured in human heartbreak and dashed human hopes, and from this perspective the cost is absolutely staggering.

At this very moment in Africa, South America and the Caribbean, dozens of children who were waiting to come to new homes in Canada face an uncertain future because of the bankruptcy filing by Kids Link International Adoption Agency, which operated under the name Imagine Adoption. Imagine how fearful some of them must be.

And at this very moment, up to 450 families from across Canada who have invested time, energy, emotion and, in many cases $20,000, are torn by confusion and doubt because they do not know if their dreams of adoption, which they may have worked years to achieve, will ever happen. Imagine their anger and pain.

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Alessandra Mussolini: ‘When a child enters Italy, he is like ours’

After last week’s scandal caused by the two Romanian children adopted by Italians, the chairwoman of the Italian Parliament’s Commission for the rights of the child, comes with fresh controversial statements.

According to Mediafax, Alessandra Mussolini declared in Bucharest, last Friday, that whenever a Romanian child enters Italy without family, he may be adopted, even though Romanian legislation forbids international adoptions. Italian legislation allows international adoptions, so it also encompasses Romanian minor citizens, she added.

Alessandra Mussolini also said Romania should have courts for children, even though their creation would imply big costs.

Focus on China’s family planning laws

Ananth Krishnan

Officials accused of selling babies abroad

Each child was sold for around $3,000

BEIJING: Government officials in southern China have been accused of selling up to 80 babies taken from families who violated family planning laws in a scandal that has reignited the debate on China’s family planning policies and their enforcement.