Cape Town – Four people are expected to appear in the Botshabelo Magistrate's Court, in the Free State, on Monday on charges of illegal adoption and fraud.

According to the provincial spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks), Warrant Officer Fikiswa Matoti, the first two suspects were arrested on Friday, March 17, and the other two the following day

Matoti said the two suspects arrested on Friday were arrested by the Botshabelo police for illegal adoption and fraud.

The suspects are aged 35 and 51.

“It is alleged that two females, a Lesotho national and a South African, went to Botshabelo Home Affairs for late registration applications for two children, aged 5 and 15.

The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation announced that it was looking for caregivers for eight orphans who are living at the National Maternal and Child Health Centre (NMCHC) and Battambang Orphanage Centre I in Battambang province.

Four of the eight children are disabled, according to a March 9 notice from the ministry released this past week.

The ministry’s General Department of Technical Affairs director-general Touch Channy said that it was not unusual for them to announce the availability of children for adoption and they are now checking all of the application forms submitted to the ministry.

“When we have children to be adopted, we notify the public so people know about it and whether they wish to adopt the children. The reason why the ministry has always announced adoptions is because when children have no relatives we must look for guardians or foster parents for them to take care of them.

“But after the ministry does its best to inform the public, if no one comes forward to care for them then the ministry will take the children to [orphanages],” he continued.

A couple has been arrested by local police for allegedly torturing and sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl, who was admitted to the Cantonment Board

Hospital with brutality injuries.

A case was lodged against Arun Sinha, a teacher by profession, and his wife Anjana based on the complaint made by Newa police outpost in-charge Preet

Pandey for digital rape, assault, and other relevant sections of the IPC and the POCSO Act, said officials.

According to police, primary investigations have revealed that the accused couple, originally from Patna, were living in an apartment in Preetam Nagar locality of Prayagraj.

A senior US politician has praised the Scottish first minister’s decision to make a formal apology over the historic forced adoption scandal.

Nicola Sturgeon is expected to deliver an apology this week to the estimated 60,000 Scots women forced to give up their babies but Congressman Jim McGovern urged her to also voice official regret for the use of cancer-causing drug Stilbestrol.

McGovern, who is pushing for an apology in America, said Scotland was showing the world how to address the scandal of the synthetic oestrogen hormone given to around 10 million women.

Scots campaigners have led the way in questioning the damage done by Stilbestrol, also known as DES, which was given to unmarried mothers during the forced adoption era to dry up breast milk after their babies were taken.

Now campaigners are hoping Sturgeon’s statement on historic adoption practices to the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday will also include an apology for the use of the drug, now known to cause vaginal and breast cancer, reproductive organ defects and infertility among women and their children and grandchildren.

The latest government statistics show that approximately 6,000 children in Romania are adoptable. In 2021, 1,655 children were adopted, and in the first six months of 2022, 418 children under the care of the state were adopted, 100 more than in the same period last year. For those interested in becoming adoptive parents, the National Authority for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Children and Adoptions (ANDPDCA) has compiled a list of 17 questions and answers . The ANDPDCA thus explains who can and cannot be an adoptive parent, as well as the adoption rules for those who meet the conditions to be adoptive parents.

1. Where do we go to adopt a child? In order to adopt a child, you must contact either the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection in whose administrative-territorial radius you have established your domicile or to an authorized Private Organization (OPA). The list of authorized OPAs can be consulted on the ANPDCA website in the "National adoption" section ( http://www.copii.ro/activatie/adoptie/adoptie-nationala/ ).

2. Do members of a couple have to be married to each other in order to adopt? No, both families (married persons between husband and wife) and single persons (unmarried) who obtain the certificate of family/person capable of adopting can adopt. In the case of spouses, Romanian law allows, in addition to adoption by the certified family, also adoption by one of the spouses, in which case the other spouse (in addition to consenting to the adoption) will also give a statement regarding the reasons for not joining the adoption application. They can also adopt people of the opposite sex who live in a stable relationship and live with the (unmarried) parent of the adopted child, if the new adopter participated directly and directly in raising and caring for the child for an uninterrupted period of at least 5 years .

3. Can we choose the children/child we want to adopt? The adoption procedure is governed by the principle of identifying the most suitable family for an adoptable child and does not focus on finding a child for a family. Consequently, for each adoptable child in the RNA records, the specialists of the General Directorate of Child Protection and Social Assistance will select the adopter/adoptive family that best meets the child's needs. In order to facilitate the adoption of difficult-to-adoptable children, the law provides for the existence (at the level of each direction) of a "profile of difficult-to-adoptable children" database accompanied by photos and information, which can be consulted by adopters. On the occasion of consulting the public profile, the adopters who are certified for adoption, have the opportunity to decide whether they will continue the adoption procedure with a certain child.

4. When can we access the profile of difficult to adopt children?)The certified family/person can access the profile of the difficult-to-adopt child at any time, but only from the headquarters of the home directorate.

Central Adoption Resource Authority Recruitment 2023: Monthly Salary 218200, Check Post, Application Process

Central Adoption Resource Authority Recruitment 2023: The Secretariat of the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited Applications from the Candidates Eligible for Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (Joint Secretary Level) in the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) through this MoWCD Recruitment 2023 Official Notification.

According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development Recruitment 2023 Official Advertisement, there is 01 Vacancy for Chief Executive Officer Post under Pay Level 14 (Rs.144200-218200) on Deputation Basis for 05 Years. According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development Recruitment 2023 Official Advertisement, Willing Officers with Eligibility may apply in the Prescribed Application Proforma with the Enclosure through Proper Channel. Duly completed Applications with Enclosures should be transmitted through Email Before or On 10.04.2023. The Cadre Controlling Authority should route the Nominations of Eligible Office through DoPT Online Interface.

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In the 1970s and 1980s it was relatively easy for couples with an unfulfilled desire to have children to adopt a child from abroad. Today these children are grown. When they search for their biological parents, they often find out that their adoption was illegal and documents were forged.

Isabel Fuhs wants to know who her mother is. "I keep asking myself that. But I can imagine that she's somewhere.” Isabel Fuhs was adopted from Brazil in 1985. She was not even two months old then, a little baby. But she knows almost nothing about her first weeks of life. The biological mother is said to have been only twelve years old when the child was born. A Brazilian lawyer arranged the adoption to Germany.

“The story about my adoption is really very strange. There's nothing, no records, what hospital was I born in? Nothing to say about the birth parents either, nothing about the mother, no name. This is really very dirty. You can't understand much today."

It's an agonizing blank in her biography. Psychologists have long known how important knowledge of one's biological origins is for the formation of one's identity. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled in 1989 that it is part of a person's personal rights to know their own origins. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child also contains the right to identity. Not knowing anything about their birth family plunges some adoptees into deep crises.

Right to know one's parentage

The law changed in 2016 to allow gay couples to adopt – but it was hardly an opening of the floodgates

When Victoria changed the law to allow same-sex couples to adopt, the government heralded it as a pathway that would allow more opportunities for children to be matched with the best possible family.

Instead, fewer than five adoptions by same-sex couples have taken place in the state since 2017.

The convener of support group Gay Dads Australia, Rodney Chiang-Cruise, is blunt about his thoughts on the issue. “Honestly, my advice to same-sex couples seeking to adopt in Victoria has been don’t bother,” he tells Guardian Australia.

In the 1970s and 1980s, it was relatively easy for couples who were unable to have children to adopt a child from abroad. Today, these children are adults. When they search for their biological parents, they often find out that their adoption was illegal and that the documents were forged.

Isabel Fuhs wants to know who her mother is. "I keep asking myself that. But I imagine that she is somewhere." Isabel Fuhs was adopted from Brazil in 1985. She was not even two months old at the time, a small baby. But she knows almost nothing about her first weeks of life. Her biological mother was said to have been only twelve years old at the time of her birth. A Brazilian lawyer arranged the adoption in Germany.

"The story of my adoption is really very strange. There is nothing, no records, in which hospital was I born? There is also nothing about my biological parents, i.e. my mother, no name. It is really very unclear. You can't understand much anymore today."

It is a painful gap in their biography. Psychologists have long known how important knowledge of biological origins is for identity formation. In 1989, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that knowing one's own ancestry is one of a person's personal rights. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child also contains the right to identity. Not knowing anything about one's biological family plunges some adoptees into deep crises.

right to know one's own ancestry

Bought children, doctored files… A generation of adoptees in search of the truth

By Agnes Leclair

Published on 03/17/2023 at 19:45, updated on 03/17/2023 at 19:45

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