.

Australian Federal Police are searching for women and children who may have been affected by the practice of forced adoption in Northern Ireland.

Northern Irish police are searching for women and children in Australia who may have been affected by institutional abuse between 1922 and 1990.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland launched an investigation in 2021 into allegations of abuse within Mother and Baby Institutions, Work Houses, and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland.

On Sunday, the Australian Federal Police announced it will assisting the investigation in an effort to find victims and witnesses who may now live in Australia.

The Police Service are appealing for mothers who gave birth in, or anyone who was adopted from, institutions in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1990 to come forward.

Tista' taqra bil- Malti.

Social policy minister Michael Falzon said that “the reality is that there are no local adoptions and there are several reasons for this despite the fact that we have changed the law”.

Appearing on Andrew Azzopardi’s talkshow on 103 Malta’s Heart, Falzon was quizzed about the recent case of of a family in Malta that returned three children adopted from India to the State, insisting they did not want to care for them any longer.

Falzon said the “exceptional” case was worrying, especially after the couple claimed that the behaviour of the children was “impossible”.

He added that when officials found out about the case, they did their utmost to find an alternative place for the children but Falzon admitted that there is much to be learnt from the case to ensure it doesn’t repeat itself.

As scores of youngsters are disappearing from hotels run by the Home Office and being trafficked across the country, sources claims warnings over their safety were ignored

On the first day of April, 17-year-old Wassim Hamam* disappeared near the bustling centre of Hove. He was never seen again. Days later another teenager, Burim Markaj, 16, vanished nearby. Within hours, a 15-year-old was also reported missing.

The disappearances continued. Four days later Alban Berisha, a 17-year-old whose portrait suggests a pensive, wary character, suddenly vanished from the streets of the Sussex coastal city. The same day, a 5ft 5in 17-year-old, Khalid Muha, was last seen wearing a black bomber jacket and white trainers.

Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel

Another child went, then another. Detectives investigating the disappearances quickly identified two facts linking the lengthening caseload: all were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. And all disappeared after staying at the same hotel. But this was no ordinary seaside hotel. The children were staying in a residence run by the Home Office, the government department whose mandate is keeping people safe.

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.

.

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.