NEW BOSTON, N.H. — A New Hampshire couple who reported their 15-year-old daughter missing in September is now charged with kidnapping and child endangerment.

According to investigators, the couple held a minor captive in the basement of their New Boston, NH home for more than two months.

Police say Denise and Thomas Atkocaitis are the child's legal guardians and had been homeschooling her.

Investigators say the girl was kept inside an eight by eight-foot room in the basement of the Atkocaitis' home on Helena Drive in a rural part of the state. They say the only lighting came from one window which, according to police, was covered with wire mesh.

The CBI filed a chargesheet against nine people for alleged child trafficking, and the sale and purchase of newborns. The agency had rescued five babies during searches across the National Capital Region, Haryana and Rajasthan following which a case was registered on April 5.

This is the first chargesheet in the case and further investigation is underway. In the first raids at seven locations in April, the CBI rescued two male newborns – 1.5 days old and 15 days old – along with a one-month-old female. The agency also seized several documents along with Rs 5.5 lakh in cash.

According to the CBI, the accused through advertisements on social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp would be connected with childless couples looking to adopt. ⁠They purchased the infants from parents, who were economically downtrodden, the agency said.

⁠Investigators said the accused would sell the newborns to hopeful parents across India for Rs 4 lakh to Rs 6 lakh per infant, giving them fake documentation related to birth and adoption. They also went to the extent of posing as the babies’ biological parents, they said.

Of the nine chargesheeted, eight accused were earlier arrested and sent to judicial custody. Police identified them as Neeraj from Sonipat; Indu Pawar, Aslam, Pooja Kashyap, Ritu, Anjali and Kavita from Delhi; and Hari Singh from Rajasthan. Another accused was subsequently traced and identified as Arti Naik from Rajasthan.

Chandigarh: The Punjab govt is establishing adoption agencies in every district of the state to simplify the process of child adoption and creating 172 new posts to strengthen the infrastructure for the adoption.Social security, women and child development minister Dr Baljit Kaur has instructed all the additional deputy commissioners to ensure that child adoption applications received in the state are processed within the stipulated time. Kaur said the department is providing financial assistance of Rs 26 lakh per year to various non-governmental organisations involved in the adoption process. Over 300 destitute and orphaned children through the department's proper implementation of the child adoption process.

I was able to give a story, a contour, to my life, and finally I no longer feel empty or in limbo when I think about my origins, who I am.

Anita Godelli - © Photo Council of Europe

Background 

Anita Godelli never knew her mother. Abandoned at birth, she was placed in an orphanage and then taken in by a foster family.

Samarpan Programme for Adoption, Research Counselling and Consultancy. - ANNUAL REPORT 2016

Former patients, staff and families welcome investigation into historical abuse allegations at Wolston Park Mental Hospital

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TARRANT COUNTY — Disturbing new revelations about an adoption attorney accused of trying to purchase unborn children from pregnant women in jail. 

Documents show how much was paid to female inmates in the Tarrant County Jail and messages revealing the pressure they appeared to be getting from the attorney to give up their babies. 

At least two female inmates in the Tarrant County Jail were allegedly given hundreds of dollars and promised more to sell their unborn babies to a Texas adoption agency illegally. 

Jody Hall is out on bond after being arrested and charged with the crime of trying to buy or sell a child. 

Les victimes roumaines de traites humaines subissent encore une fois une forte complaisance de l’Office de Lutte Anti-Fraude (OLAF).

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Réponse OLAF le 4 juin 2024

D’un revers de main, le 4 juin, après des relances et une plainte auprès de la Médiatrice Européenne Mme O’Reilly pour mauvaise gestion administrative, l’OLAF nous adresse une réponse surréaliste avec le titre « SENSIBLE : OLAF Enquêtes » que les informations complémentaires fournies ne justifiaient pas une réévaluation de la décision.

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The horrors endured by women and girls in New Zealand’s unmarried mothers’ homes have been laid bare - including a resident beaten in labour and forced to give birth on her side so as to not glimpse the baby that was taken and adopted out.

A landmark report into abuse in state care has detailed the experiences of women and girls who had their newborns taken from them and adopted out to married couples from the late 1950s to 1980s, the so-called “baby scoop” era. Those include:

• Being starved in an effort to keep unborn babies small so deliveries were more straightforward.
• One woman told the inquiry she was left alone to labour for three days, and then forced to give birth lying on her side, so as to not catch a glimpse of her baby.
• A 14-year-old was transferred to give birth at Auckland Hospital, was slapped by a staff member during labour, and then stitched up without pain relief. Her baby was removed straight away.
• The state played an active part in facilitating closed adoptions that haunted women for the rest of their lives, with a new birth certificate often created that claimed the child had been born to its adoptive parents.

The long-awaited report of the Abuse in Care Royal Commission, six years in the making, was released yesterday. That included women and girls sent to unmarried mothers’ homes, after the campaigning and efforts of a group who had earlier petitioned Parliament for a Government inquiry into forced adoption.

Measures to be taken in accordance with the revision of the Missing Children Act in September
 

[Seoul = News Fim] Reporter Park Woo-jin = Starting in September, when the police request personal information from relevant organizations during the search for missing children, the relevant organizations will be required to provide the information. The police have begun revising detailed regulations in accordance with this change in the system.

According to the police on the 18th, the National Police Commission held a meeting the day before and decided on three related regulations, including the 'Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Protection and Support of Missing Children, etc.'

This rule revision appears to be a measure taken in response to the revised Act on the Protection and Support of Missing Children (Missing Children Act) going into effect on September 27.

The revised bill allows police chiefs to request without a warrant information from relevant agencies that hold information necessary for finding missing children, such as closed-circuit television (CCTV), credit and transportation card usage history, and medical treatment dates and locations. It also stipulates that the relevant agencies must provide the information immediately upon request to the police.