MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Thursday allowed a couple from Hyderabad to meet their 7-month-old adoptive child, who was allegedly trafficked, at a children’s home in Mahalaxmi three hours daily for six days a week. 

Vacation bench of Justices Sandeep Marne and Neela Gokhale modified their order, passed on Tuesday, that had allowed them visitation rights for 12 hours daily. 

“Accordingly it is directed that petitioners shall have the right to visit the child between 3 pm and 6 pm every day from Mon to Sat,” they added. 

The couple had filed a habeas corpus petition to direct the Child Welfare Committee to produce the child and hand over her custody to them. Their petition said that since their marriage in 2015, the wife had three miscarriages. Her aunt introduced them to a couple from Visakhapatnam who wanted to give the fifth child up for adoption. 

On Sept 23, both parties executed a deed of adoption and the seven-day-old baby was brought home. Since then the couple has taken care of her. On April 29 a team from Mumbai Crime Branch–Unit II “forcibly” took the baby away. They informed that the aunt was arrested in an FIR registered at Vikhroli police station for trafficking. 

European Council President Charles Michel’s Chief Diplomatic Adviser, Simon Mordue has been selected as Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and will take up his duties on 1 July. Prior to that he will complete a short term assignment on Ukraine for the Commission.  

Magdalena Grono, Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to President Michel will take up the role and duties as Chief Diplomatic Advisor. 

President Michel would like to personally thank Simon for his professionalism, dedication and commitment. His contribution has made an impact on EU foreign policy successes and has been highly valued at home and abroad. 

President Michel wishes Simon all the best in his new endeavour while confident of the great added value he will bring to the EEAS.

An article in the QLD Sunday Mail dated Aug 27 1995 alleges that baby selling was being carried out in Queensland.

In the article two women one a natural mother and the other other an adoptive mother tell their stories of how the matron of St Marys Home at Towoong deliberately broke the laws of the time and sold babies to adoptive parents for the sum of fifty pounds or in todays equivalent $100.

The matron Ivy McGregor forced mothers to sign adoption papers before the birth of their babies and then arranged adoptions of newborns to adoptive parents outside Australia.

One 16 year said that she was sent home from the hospital after the birth without seeing her baby. She only saw the baby when she was taken back to the hospital to hand the baby over to the adoptive parents. She recalls the look of compassion at her distress from the adoptive mother when she handed over the child.

The matron then told her to look out the window and watch the adoptive parents take the child away.

Although the case currently concerns four people, there may be hundreds of similar cases.

Four Greenlanders are demanding a total of one million in compensation from the Danish state. This is done in a draft summons sent to the Danish state.

The case concerns four Greenlandic children who were previously adopted to Danish foster parents.

Lawyer Mads Pramming wants the state to pay DKK 250,000 in compensation individually to the four people. He believes that the persons were adopted from Greenland to Denmark on a legally questionable basis.

Body of North Dakota child was found in the woman's basement

A North Dakota woman has been sentenced to life in a federal prison for fatally abusing her 5-year-old foster child.

Tammy Longie, of Tokio, earlier pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, child abuse and neglect in the May 2020 death of Raven Thompson. His body was found the basement of Longie's home on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation.

Longie was sentenced in federal court Monday in a case that U.S. Attorney Jennifer Klemetsrud Puhl called "tragic and horrifying."

The FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs responded the Longies' home and found Raven dead and his 7-year-old brother in need of medical care due to abuse and neglect.

Mandira Bedi shared her struggle with the adoption process and how they flew her daughter Tara home in a private jet during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

After having her first child, Mandira Bedi wanted to adopt another, and after years of paperwork, she and her late husband, filmmaker Raj Kaushal, adopted their daughter, Tara Bedi Kaushal. In a recent interaction, Mandira shared her struggle with the adoption process and how they flew Tara home in a private jet during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Speaking to Humans of Bombay, Mandira said, “I wanted to have a second child and adopt. When my son Veer was about six, I put in the papers for adoption. It’s a long process, and I don’t know why it’s not easier. I mean, I understand the reasons, but when it’s clear that this is a good family, it should be simpler. It took a while—Veer turned nine, the pandemic hit, and I told Raj, ‘It still hasn’t happened. Why?’ We had gotten caught up and didn’t follow up much. So, I thought, it’s now or never, and we pushed forward.”

Mandira Bedi recalled how they received Tara’s photo via email and instantly felt she was the one. Raj Kaushal traveled to Jabalpur alone to complete the formalities while Mandira stayed back with Veer due to the pandemic. After Raj completed the paperwork, Mandira and Veer flew from Mumbai to Jabalpur in a private jet to bring Tara home. Mandira met Tara at the airport and flew her back to Mumbai.

As of this week, adoptees can view their adoption files at the National Archives, but contrary to expectations, access is limited.

Maurice Timmermans June 19, 2024, 08:29

Adoptees will be able to view their adoption files at the National Archives from Monday and will no longer have to contact the Child Protection Council. However, there is disappointment among adoptees now that it appears that the archive will black out sensitive data, such as names of half-brothers and sisters and information about genetic diseases.

This is evident from an appeal to the Open Government Act (Woo) by the foundation Verleden in Zicht, which stands up for the interests of adoptees. Archive staff will weigh the right to information about the descent of the 'children' against the right to privacy of the biological parents.

“We were always told that the National Archives would provide full access to the files,” says Barbalique Peters, board member of Verleden in Zicht. “And that the archive would not black out anything, as the Child Protection Council used to do. We were fooled.”

All parties involved to be consulted to understand issues in commercial surrogacy, altruistic surrogacy, permissions to single parents and so on

NEW DELHI Members of a select committee of Rajya Sabha, examining the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2019, will visit Anand in Gujarat, Hyderabad and Mumbai from January 21 to 24 to examine if surrogacy should be

allowed for live-in couples and single intending parents and whether a ban on commercial surrogacy replaced by ‘altruistic surrogacy’ is a viable option.

The team will interact with surrogate mothers, ‘intending infertile couples’, doctors and health department officials to get a first-hand feedback on the process.

The 23-member select committee headed by Upper House BJP MP Bhupendra Yadav is mandated to draw up suggestions on eleven points including ban on commercial surrogacy, definition of a close relative who can

A woman charged with first-degree murder in connection with a deadly stabbing in Maryland has been identified as the adopted daughter of former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte.

Sophia Negroponte, 27, was arrested Thursday night in the death of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen. WTTG reported that Rasmussen was pronounced dead at the scene in the suburb of Rockville shortly after 11 p.m.

Sophia Negroponte

Sophia Negroponte (Montgomery County Police Department)

Police sources told the station that Negroponte and Rasmussen were acquaintances who had been involved in a disagreement. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call 240-773-5070.

There will be an arrangement for partial authority for educators. Persons who play an important role in the daily care and upbringing of a child, such as the grandparents, a stepparent or another family member, will soon be given the authority and responsibility to make decisions together with the parents. This is the core of a bill by Minister Dekker for Legal Protection that has been consulted via the internet.

More and more children are growing up in new family forms, with more than two parents taking care of them. Minister Dekker: 'Sub-authority ties in with this: in a way that is pragmatic, offers protection and gives recognition. For example, partial custody is a solution for a father who will take care of his children together with his new partner. '

Recognizable

Now it is not always clear to outsiders what the role of those other educators is. Who takes care of the child and who can make which decisions? It must be clear to the GP and teacher who they can talk to about the child. Sub-authority offers a solution for this and ensures that parents, together with a maximum of two other persons, also bear recognizable responsibility for the daily decisions about upbringing and care.

Decisions