Jan. 21—ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP — Ashtabula County Children Services officials are waiting for details, but are excited about potential new resources to help children be adopted.

Houses Bill 45 was passed in early January and provides funds to help famileis adopt children.

The Ohio Adoption Grant Program will provide $10,000 to any family adopting a child; $15,000 to any adopting family who was already providing foster care for the child and $20,000 to a family adopting a child with special needs.

The bill is written to allow the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services to apply for more money if it looks like the original $15 million will not be adequate to pay for the benefits during 2023.

The details are still being worked out so counties know proper procedures to handle the requests for the grants, said Ashtabula County Children Services Executive Director Tania Burnett.

Dorry Lawlor has lived a full and largely happy life. She is 70 years old and loved by her children, wider family and community.

Three years ago, Dorry received bombshell news that shook the foundations of her life. A relative confided in Dorry of their belief that her twin sister, whom she always was told was stillborn, had survived and was believed to have been illegally adopted in Dublin.

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Twenty years ago you could buy a child in Romania for a few thousand euros. In 'Dany's Choice' we see

how a Telefacts reporter goes undercover in 2003 and comes home with shocking images. Child

trafficking and illegal adoption will also remain a problem in Europe in 2023. In a large-scale action

against child trafficking, in which Belgium also participated, more than 130 people were arrested last

summer and 60 people were identified. According to UNICEF, 2 million children are trafficked every year.

Eluru District Collector V. Prasanna Venkatesh on Saturday handed over a four-month-old baby to a Chittor-based couple for adoption under the aegis of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).

The baby girl, Snehitha, is an inmate of government-run Sishu Gruha in Eluru town. The couple, P. Anil Kumar and P. Vidhya, adopted the baby girl.

Mr. Prasanna Venkatesh has said that childless couple could adopt the children under the CARA. Integrated Child Welfare Officer K. Padmavathi and Child Protection Officer R. Rajesh were present.

This is Part 4 of a four-part investigative series.

Part 1 laid out the horrifying facts of the child-prostitution case, Part 2 explored the LGBTQ pedophile ring's reach, and Part 3 shined a spotlight on the state's failure to protect the two little boys from suffering through serial sexual abuse allegedly committed by their gay activist fathers, who became their adoptive parents thanks to Georgia's courts and child-welfare system.

Today's fourth and final piece details what life is like in jail for these two alleged child rapists each facing over nine life sentences.

Life Behind Bars

Since they're being prosecuted as co-defendants, the adoptive fathers are housed separately while in pre-trial detainment.

REVEALED: Parents of Philly's 'boy in the box' were 'beautiful' woman, 21, who'd given up previous baby for adoption and local man who became construction magnate: Friends say boy was likely put up for adoption shortly after his birth

The parents of Philadelphia's 'Boy in the Box' have finally been revealed, 65 years after he was found murdered, as a Pennsylvania construction magnate and a 'beautiful, kind and quiet' woman.

Earlier this month, the slain Philadelphia child known as 'Boy in the Box' was finally given a headstone with his name on after his identity was uncovered in December.

The tot was found murdered in a box in the city in 1957 in what became a tormenting cold case murder for the City of Brotherly Love. A DNA breakthrough in December revealed his identity as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, 4.

His parents, who never married, have been revealed as Augustus Zarelli and Mary Abel, who went by Betty, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. Family members believe that the boy was put up for adoption through a Catholic organization shortly after his birth. His mother died in 1991, his father in 2014.

The affair made and continues to make noise in Zambia where the scandal broke out, but also in Croatia, the country of origin of 8 adoptive parents involved in this affair.

The DCTH ONGDH, Dynamics for the Fight Against Human Trafficking in acronym, seized of this file has decided to put it in the public square.

This is a case that started in the DRC near the border with Zambia, precisely in an orphanage run by a certain Emmanuel Va Kabongo.

It is this orphanage director who would have facilitated according to the DCTH, the illicit transfer of these children whose age varies between 1 and 3 years in Zambia for their adoption by 4 Croatian couples.

In the DRC, radio silence continues to be felt.

When Sylvia and Brandon Cunningham got out of jail in North Carolina several years ago, after serving months on drug charges, a judge laid out the steps they needed to take to get their children back from foster care.

After a balky start, they followed through. They got sober and stayed sober. They attended parenting classes and therapy. They got jobs. They showed up for weekly visits with their kids.

Eventually, a judge determined that the Cunninghams had shown they could be good parents and that their house — a tidy trailer at the end of a dirt road — was safe for their children.

But only three of their four children came home.

In 2021, the Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that one of their sons — who was then 5 — was properly placed for adoption on the grounds that the Cunninghams had failed to reimburse the government for some of the cost of their child's foster care.

This is Part 3 of a four-part investigative series. Read Part 1 and Part 2.

There were more than just warning signs that went unnoticed during gay activists William Dale Zulock Jr. and Zachary "Zack" Jacoby Zulock's expedited adoption process. A little over four years later, the adoptive fathers of two are now facing a laundry list of charges for unspeakable sex crimes they allegedly committed against their young adopted sons, including rape, producing child pornography of the children's "routine" sexual abuse, and prostituting their 11-year-old boy to pedophiles in the area.

In the latest installment of the Zulock horror story, we're exposing everything we learned about the faith-based special-needs adoption agency that the same-sex couple used to adopt the two boys; the role that Georgia's child-welfare system played in placing the children, who are back in foster care, in an abusive household; and the lack of accountability across the board.

We're naming names.

Red Flags

Jyoti Weststrate and Regina Schipper have been looking for their biological parents in India for years. Correspondent Aletta André followed part of their search.

Aletta André18 January 2023, 01:00

A middle-aged woman is standing in Jyoti Weststrate's hotel room with some relatives. It is a cheap four-storey hotel in the town of Bettiah in the northern Indian state of Bihar. The music of a wedding in the courtyard can be heard through the window.

The woman looks awkward and confused, and after a while drops off. "It doesn't get through to them, but I'm not who they're looking for," says Weststrate, unsure how to deal with the situation. In her own search for her biological family, she is used to some disappointment. The fact that she also sees the other side of the coin in Bihar, with families of missing children, touches her, but does not take her any further.

'I don't want to die searching'