A 50-year-old woman accuses Pforzheim City Councilor Oana Krichbaum of illegal child trafficking and bombards her with messages.

Prominence does not protect against slander. Oana Krichbaum (CDU) has had this experience for years. The Pforzheim city councilwoman is bombarded daily with e-mails, Facebook postings and letters from a 50-year-old from the Enzkreis district in which she accuses the wife of Bundestag member Gunther Krichbaum (CDU) of illegal child trafficking. Therefore, since November, the allegation of defamation has been heard in the outer chamber of the Karlsruhe Regional Court.

At first she defended herself with a civil lawsuit against the "terror", as she puts it, reported Oana Krichbaum as a witness. The woman will not be dissuaded from her actions by a judgment passed against her in 2019. Not even because of the fines, which increase up to 10,000 euros, for violating the conditions imposed in the civil proceedings.

While driving home from the court hearing in Karlsruhe, the accused continued the Facebook terror until today. She therefore saw no other way out than to defend herself now with a procedure before a criminal court.

Oana Krichbaum's husband also receives countless e-mails

The Bombay High Court recently granted guardianship of a minor to her biological parents after she was deemed to be an illegitimate child as a result of being born out of marriage [Sudeep Suhas Kulkarni and Anr. vs Abbas Bahadur Dhanani].

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Bill, providing for the adoption of both boys and girls, was approved by the Lok Sabha on Friday.

Mr N. C. Chatterjee (Hindu Mahasabha) called the Bill a communal one. “ It is wrong for a secular State to single out Hindus alone for this kind of legislation.” he said.

Adoption of girls was something unheard of in Hindu society from the days of the Vedas. The Bill defied the directive principles of the Constitution.

The chapter on maintenance was capable of more than one interpretation. Lawyers had already pointed out that some of the provisions could not be enforced.

Mrs Sushama Sen (Cong.-Bihar) did not agree with Mr Chatterjee that the Bill violated the Constitution On the contrary, she said, it sought to implement the provision conferring equal right to men and women. She congratulated the Minister on giving Hindu women their rightful place in society.

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A Hindu couple entered into an agreement with a Muslim Couple that they will give their child to the Muslim couple at birth. The Hindu couple claimed that they were financially unable to raise the child.

The Karnataka High Court recently dismissed a petition filed by a Muslim Couple against dismissal of their plea under Sections 7 to 10 and 25 of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 to appoint them as adoptive parents of a Hindu child.

The bench of Justice B Veerappa and Justice K. S. Hemalekha noted that the Muslim Couple and the biological parents of the child had entered into an agreement in respect of child's adoption even before the child was born.

Court said, "It is shocking that an agreement is entered into between the parties in respect of an unborn child".

Diphu (Assam), Dec 13 (PTI) Abandoned at birth by her biological parents, a two-year-old child from a remote area in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district has found home in distant Spain with a professor from the European country formally adopting her on Tuesday.

Maria Emngal Rams arrived at Dhansiri town of this hill district early on Tuesday morning and took custody of the minor after spending more than two months for paperwork and other formalities.

“The adoption process was done through CARA and after approving and verifying all documents, we handed the child to her new mother at a function here,” Sanju Bora, founder member of ‘Mission Concern’, an adoption agency where the child was staying, said.

The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is a statutory body of the union ministry of women and child development which functions as the nodal body to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions.

The adoption agency official said the child was brought to Mission Concern two years ago in a serious condition. She was abandoned by the roadside and ants had bitten through her flesh severely.

The territorial police in Kampala Metropolitan, charged two foster parents, of American origin, to Buganda Road Court on the 09.12.2022, with the Aggravated torture of their 10-year-old son, and they were remanded till the 14.12.2022. The facts gathered indicate that, Nicholas Spencer aged 32 and his wife Mackenzie Leigh Mathias Spencer, a 32-year-old, volunteer, fostered 3 children, including Kayima John, in 2018, from Welcome Ministry, in Jinja City. The suspects came to Uganda in 2017, and started working with Akola Project, based in Jinja. The couple joined Motive Creation Agency, and moved with their children to Upper Naguru, where they have been staying together.

It was however, realised that between the year, 2020 and December 2022, the couple constantly tortured, a one Kayima John, a 10-year-old pupil of Dawn Children’s Center in Ntinda, which attracted the attention of neighbours. They alerted the police at Kira Road Division and investigations commenced. Our team of investigators established, that the couple kept the victim barefoot, and naked throughout the day, would occasionally make him squat in an awkward position, with his head facing the floor and hands spread out widely, he spent his nights on a wooden platform, without a mattress or beddings and was served cold meals from the fridge. We believe, the victim could have endured more severe acts of torture, away from the camera.

We want to thank the neighbours, teachers and the victim, for taking the courage to stand-up against acts of child torture. We also call upon al probation offices and social workers, to continuously monitor the well-being of children in foster homes, to guard against handing over vulnerable children to abusive foster parents, or other forms of harm. For instance, what happened to the victim, in the last couple of years, probably could have been prevented, if they had closely monitored the well-being of the foster children.

The suspects came to Uganda in 2017, where Nicholas started working with AKOLA Project based in Jinja. In 2018, they fostered 3 children including the victim from Welcome Ministry – Jinja. They moved to Kampala when they joined Motive Creation Agency, with their 3 children.

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Melanie Kleintz was adopted from Peru as a small child in 1980 – illegally. She does not like to think back to her childhood in Germany. What she was missing: love. She found it when she later met her birth family. Today Melanie Kleintz is an adoption counselor.

his article is the 26th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. We are deeply grateful to Seo-vin for sharing his insightful perspective as a second generation Korean-Dutch. His story reminds us that adoption not only affects one's lifetime but ripples through the generations to come. ? ED.

By Bastiaan Flikweert (Shin Seo-vin)

In this 2011 file photo, Bastiaan Flikweert poses with his family during the Ministry of Justice's event celebrating reinstatement of nationality for Koreans who were adopted overseas as babies. Courtesy of Bastiaan Flikweert

I vividly remember the grand ceremony at the Korean Ministry of Justice in 2011 when both of my parents' Korean citizenship was restored. It had been more than two years since we had moved to Korea as a family, and I remember feeling proud ? proud that my parents had completed their journey back home, and proud to be their "Korean" son. While my parents seemed to have completed their journey, mine had barely begun.

Korea had always played a role in my life. I looked different and was bullied for this, but simultaneously could not explain to myself why I looked different. I had a hard time explaining to my peers on the playground that my parents were adopted and that I, therefore, was Dutch. Why did I have to explain myself in the first place? Were my parents not ordinary Dutch people? It took me a while to realize that most people did not see it that way: To them, I was a second-generation immigrant. For a while, I attempted to explain that this was not ? no, could not ? be the case. My parents did not choose to come here in the first place! Why are they not seen as just Dutch people? They were adopted! Well, it turned out that adoption was the problem.

South Korea wants to map shady adoption practices with a study of dozens of adoptions from the second half of the last century.

The investigation was enforced by Danish lawyer Peter Regel Møller , himself adopted from South Korea.

South Korea will investigate dozens of adoptions of children who were given shelter in the United States and Europe, including Belgium, in the second half of the last century. These are the adoptions of children who were taken from South Korean parents without permission, especially in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. These were often orphans or street children, usually girls. During the adoptions, documents were allegedly forged and identities were deliberately changed. Children were also kidnapped and registered as orphans, or abandoned by their parents.

unmarried mothers

The international adoption of South Korean children started in the years after the Korean War (1950-1953). Initially, it mainly concerned orphans. Thereafter, the emphasis shifted increasingly to "socially unwanted" children, such as those of unmarried mothers, a cultural taboo in South Korea, or those of South Korean mothers and African-American soldiers stationed in the country.

Pieter Verbruggen and Ricardo Alvarez met each other eleven years ago at a birthday party. It's love at first sight. About five years ago they come to the conclusion that they want to start a family and decide to adopt a child.

But that ends in a big disappointment, Pieter tells LINDA.nl.

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“We wanted to offer a child who was already born a good future,” he says. “A friend of ours had started an adoption process, which we followed with interest.” They also register themselves as adoptive parents. “As a gay you can only adopt from South Africa, Portugal and the United States. We chose the US, because that is where most children are born that are given up for adoption. It is also the only country where babies are given up for adoption, so it was our only hope for a baby.” They sign up for A New Way . “We went for a child from the US and from the Netherlands.”

The couple registers via the website. A year later they receive a letter asking if they still want to adopt. They want that. That is why an intensive program including a series of courses follows. “A course about having children, about adopting, about parenting. You should not miss a course.”