GHAZIABAD: A Pocso court on Thursday sentenced a 30-year-old man to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl he had adopted.
The crime took place in March this year. The convict's wife had adopted the child from a relative a month ago. His accomplice, Neeraj Kumar, was also convicted and sentenced to four years in jail.
 

Special public prosecutor Utkarsh Vats said a woman, Saroj, had filed a police complaint at Tila Mod police station on March 12.
“The woman said her brother’s daughter was adopted by a relative, Ajay Bhati, one month ago. However, she went missing on March 11. The family members launched a search and found her body in a bush on March 12,” she stated in her complaint.

She further said Bhati’s wife had adopted the girl.
“However, Bhati was not happy with this move. He used to thrash the girl,” the complaint further added.

Subsequently, Bhati was arrested on March 14.

Saleem Sheikh, a local and witness in this case, told the court that on March 12, he had seen Bhati carrying something like a body in a bag.
“Neeraj Kumar was also with Ajay Bhati on a motorcycle. They dumped the bag somewhere and returned home. The body of the child was recovered later in the same bag,” he told police.

Panchu Sheikh, another witness, said, “There was a CCTV camera in our office. On March 12, Ajay Bhati and Neeraj visited our office, deleted the footage of their movement, and fled the spot.”

Dr Anil Yadav, who conducted an autopsy on the body, stated in his report that the child had injury marks on her private parts and that she was raped before she was suffocated to death.

However, Bhati told the court that he was framed in this case.

“I had two children: a son (9), and a daughter (6). My wife had adopted this child, and I was taking care of her, too. That day I had gone to my shop while the three children were coming from home to my shop, and the third child went missing. I had informed Saroj about this,” he said.

However, Tendra Pal, special judge, Pocso relied on the testimonies of the witnesses and medical evidence on Thursday and convicted Ajay Bhati and Neeraj Kumar.

“Ajay Bhati is sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment and fined Rs 20,000 under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC and rigorous life imprisonment and fined Rs 20,000 under Section 5/6 of the Pocso Act. Neeraj Kumar is sentenced to four years of imprisonment and fined Rs 2,000 under Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the IPC,” the court said.

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

Bhopal: A sessions court here sentenced a woman to life imprisonment for killing a one-year-old child whom she & her husband had adopted from an orphanage in Ujjain.

According to the prosecution, the husband of the accused, Ramakant Sharma, had gone to JP hospital on December 12, 2017, with an infant who was declared dead by the doctors.

He told the doctors that the child is severely malnourished, and he was being treated at Hamidia hospital. Dr A K Agrawal informed Govindpura police over phone that a person had come with an infant, who was declared brought dead by Dr Sandeep Gupta after check-up. There were serious injuries on the head of the child. Govindpura police registered a case under section 302 of the IPC and section 23 of POCSO against unidentified accused and started investigation. During interrogation, the couple admitted that the child had fallen off the hands of the woman. It was also revealed that the child had developed severe malnourishment due to lack of proper care. Police had then arrested the accused and subsequently she was charged. tnn

There is no report available regarding death of children after their adoption from these agencies: Centre

A total of 79 children have died between April to December, 2022, in Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) majorly due to unsafe abandonments which exposed them to harm like being bitten by animals or asphyxia. Very low birth weight and premature birth were some of the other reasons.

However, there is no report available regarding death of children after their adoption from these agencies, the Ministry of Women and Child Development informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

The Ministry said that for improving quality child care in Child Care Institutions (CCIs), particularly in SAAs, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has been advising the agencies through circulars and through various training and development activities.

Adoption Regulations, 2022, also emphasises on quality child care by the adoption agencies and also mandates Chief Medical Officers for necessary interventions.

Hollands Dagboek: Dick Schoof

Dick Schoof (43) is hoofddirecteur van de Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND). Vorige week was hij op werkbezoek in China, wegens de Doverzaak. Schoof is getrouwd met Yolanda Senf. Ze hebben twee uit China geadop- teerde dochters.

Woensdag 18 oktober

Vandaag zijn we in China aangekomen. Volgens de plaatselijke kalender is het 18 september, een geluksdag. In cijfers is 8 sowieso een geluksgetal, maar als je de drie getallen 9-1-8 in het Chinees uitspreekt staat er volgens onze begeleiders `would be forever lucky'. Op weg van het vliegveld naar het centrum van Peking zijn de trouwstoeten dan ook niet te tellen.

De Nederlandse delegatie zal tijdens de vele diners en lunches toasten op friendship en cooperation. Onvermijdelijk, want we willen relaties opbouwen, informatie uitwisselen rond illegale migratie, mensensmokkel, terugkeer van uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers en illegalen, zeker waar het alleenstaande minderjarige asielzoekers (AMA's) betreft. China neemt een belangrijke plaats in op de lijst van landen waar illegale migranten en asielzoekers vandaan komen en dat zal alleen nog maar toenemen als de grenzen van China verder opengaan. Voor mij is het de derde keer in vijf jaar dat ik in Peking ben. Het feit dat ik weer in China ben, geeft een apart gevoel. Bij de vorige twee bezoeken werden Yolanda en ik de ouders van twee fantastische Chinese kinderen. Ik vertel dat aan mijn reisgenoten: het is alsof je in de straat van je ouderlijk huis loopt, het voelt vertrouwd met iets van weemoed.

In a shocking case, Chintadripet police arrested a lawyer on charges of having murdered his own adopted daughter, after realizing that the four year old had speech disorder.
 

CHENNAI: In a shocking case, Chintadripet police arrested a lawyer on charges of having murdered his own adopted daughter, after realizing that the four year old had speech disorder. Though the murder took place in July 2016, police action came only now, pursuant to the new Chennai city police commissioner A K Viswanathan's instruction to subordinate officers to complete all pending cases in their stations.

According to police, the lawyer, X Gerald and his wife Sangeetha, who works as lecturer in Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University here, adopted the child in May 2016 from a private orphanage. On July 7, 2016, she was rushed to the Child Trust Hospital in Nungambakkam with injuries. However, the doctors declared the child dead on arrival and sent the body to the government hospital for autopsy.

Though the hospital authorities indicated to the investigators that there were serious doubts about causes of the child's death, it was not seriously dealt with, police sources said.

On Thursday, Chintadripet police inspector Sahadevan summoned lawyer Gerald, who lives on Sami Naicken Street in Chintadripet, and questioned him about the murder. Gerald was then booked for offences punishable under the Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) IPC and arrested him. He was remanded in prison after being produced before a magistrate court in Egmore.
 

Gerald told police that they had chosen the child and named her as Mirudula, before realizing that she had an articulation problem. He claimed to have treated her by giving her 'shock treatment'. Police said Gerald had beaten the child and that due to the repeated blows, the child suffered injuries and collapsed on July 7, 2016.

After the child's death and a damning medical/forensic report, the then police inspector Sivamani of Chintadripet police station had searched for Gerald but failed to trace him.

The Waimanalo couple accused of murdering their 6-year-old adopted daughter in 2021 apparently have retained their parental rights over three of the victim’s young sisters.

Two parents in Wyoming are facing abuse charges involving their adoptive children in what the Kent County Prosecutor's Office alleges was torture that went on for more than a decade. 

Kris and Alan Jones, of Wyoming, each face three counts of torture and three counts of child abuse. Torture is a felony in Michigan and carries a maximum life sentence if convicted. 

It's believed there were three children in the home at the time. 

According to a probable cause document filed in 62A District Court this week, Kris and Alan Jones became the legal adoptive parents of those three children in 2011. 

In the years following, it's alleged the children faced poor living conditions that included being put in dog collars, and forced to eat dog food with milk and oatmeal with hot sauce. The children were also forced to run miles, were pushed down the stairs, held down, punched and choked. 

Two women have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 12-year-old boy in Burlington and for allegedly assaulting and confining a younger brother, both of whom they were in the process of adopting.

In a news release Friday, Halton police said the charges were laid following a “lengthy investigation” into the death of the boy, who has been described as Indigenous, more than a year ago.

Const. Ryan Anderson said that on Dec. 21, 2022, at around 7:26 p.m., police and other emergency services were called to a home in the New Street and Guelph Line area for a child without vital signs.

Police said they found a 12-year-old boy dead inside the home.

Police would not answer questions about cause of death, or when the death was deemed a homicide, because the case is before the courts.

Ten years after a woman was killed by her estranged husband in her Loudoun County home, two of the victim’s closest friends, who took in her five children, were finally able to start adoption proceedings.

Michelle Castillo was in the midst of a bitter divorce and custody battle with IT executive Braulio Castillo when she was found dead March 20, 2014. Her husband was convicted in her death and sentenced to life in prison.

In 2010, Michelle Castillo signed a legal document naming David and Stephanie Meeker guardians of her children should something happen.

“We promised that we would take care of the kids, and so in the beginning, not knowing what we didn’t know, we just took the kids and loved them anyway and felt like this was the right thing to do,” Stephanie Meeker said. “We’re just going to let them stay here and figure it out.”

It was just the beginning of a legal odyssey as they began to raise the kids as their own within the foster care system. The oldest Castillo child was in college; the others ranged in age from 3 to 11.

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Two Russian teenagers were arrested in Spain and accused of killing their adoptive mother this week.

Silvia López Gayubas, 48, was found dead Wednesday night in Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, where her body was discovered inside a car in the garage of her family home, according to local newspaper El Diario Montañés.

The mother was found with a bag over her head and "blows and a stab wound to the neck," per the outlet.