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.

Advice foradoptive families

In October 1997, we sent an application for the adoption of child no. 2 to DanAdopt.

We were lucky enough to be interviewed in October. The county thought we were probably approved before Christmas. But no, the matter was not included in the consultation meeting until February.

By Helle and Flemming Knoth

The case was rejected because our boy, who was just over 3 1/2 years old at the time, had a support pedagogue. They even had a statement from the kindergarten. We were then referred to a child psychologist who we were to visit with our boy, and who was also on a home visit.

Two years of waiting

A FOUR-year old girl who had been informally given to a Sydney couple under a traditional Samoan adoption arrangement should return to her parents in Samoa, the Family Court has ruled.

The girl known as ''S'' had been promised to a childless great aunt and her husband before birth, but had lived with her parents and seven siblings in Samoa until she was nearly two years old.

Within days of delivering S to the couple in western Sydney in February 2009, the girl's mother decided she wanted to keep the child. But before she could leave Australia, the couple - known in court as Mr and Ms Tomas - had filed proceedings which stopped S from leaving.

Two years later, the court has ruled that it would be best for S - a happy and healthy child who related to both sets of parents - to return to Samoa.

But the case raised wider issues about the entry of children into Australia and highlighted tensions between federal immigration and state-based adoption laws, said Associate Professor Jennifer Burn from the faculty of law at UTS.