AHMEDABAD: Prachi, 12, was surrendered to the court as a five-year-old by her parents following a family feud. Suffering from TB and a rare skin condition - erythroderma or exfoliative dermatitis - she initially lived in a juvenile foster home for three years and then at Missionaries of Charity facility for five years. As her condition leaves her with blackened skin which is hard like 'scales', she was rejected twice as a child for adoption, said foster home officials.
Prachi, however, got third time lucky when she found her family in Manju Goel, a MD (medicine) from Madison, Wisconsin in the US. Manju is already a single mother to two daughters, both adopted. She will welcome Prachi to her family and is likely to fly back to US this week following completion of formalities. The Ahmedabad regional passport office processed Prachi's passport in a day as a special case, said adoption agency officials.
 

The state child protection officers said that family conditions forced the parents of Prachi to surrender her to the court in 2015 when she was four years old. She was first kept in Shishu Gruh at Paldi and later the NGO's facility for children and adolescents. Officials said that as a child Prachi was diagnosed with a lesion of TB for which she has undergone surgeries twice - once in Civil Hospital and another at a private hospital.

Dimple M, a coordinator at Missionaries of Charity, said that while Prachi's TB is under control, her skin condition, attributed to genetic factors, persists.
Prachi was happy to meet her sister, mother
Dimple M, a coordinator at Missionaries of Charity, said, “The condition requires regular moisturizing to avoid the skin from getting too dry and peel off. As the condition affects the upper layer of skin, it also hampers perspiration. Due to her looks, she could not make many friends. The rejection by prospective parents also hurt her somewhere. But her pain vanished when she got to know about her new family – in the US”. Goel also has an interesting story of her own, said NGO officials. She emigrated to the US as a child and lives across the home of her parents. She never got married, but to fulfill her wish to be a mother, she adopted two girls – one from Mumbai and another from Pune over the past 16 years.
The girls are now 20 and 15 years of age. One of the girls accompanied her to India to complete the formalities of adoption at the NGO. “A medical practitioner, she feels closer to orphan children as her father was a probation officer in one such facility in Delhi. It was a wholesome moment as both Manju and Prachi got a member to complete the family. The family has made special arrangements at the Madison residence to welcome her,” said a social worker at the NGO. “Prachi was so happy to meet her sister and mother. A reserved girl, she enjoys the company of close friends. We’re sure that she’ll grow to her full potential with her family.”

A senior official at Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) official in Gujarat said that children with any health conditions or disability find it difficult to get adopted. “The trend indicates that Indian parents often go for the healthier children. Girls are often the first choice. It is mainly adoptive parents from abroad who choose children that need special care,” said the official.

After five years of legal proceedings, Valérie has just received the adoption certificate from the court: she is officially the mother of the three children she had with her ex-wife Sandrine, who carried them.

“A huge relief, a liberation and finally legitimacy!” When Valérie* received the adoption certificate for her 10-year-old daughter and her 6-year-old twins , she didn't believe it right away. “I had to reread the document three times ,” she says, still moved after these five years of having to prove that having these three children was indeed her project too.

In 2018, Sandrine, his ex-wife and biological mother of the three children, decided to divorce a few days before the end of the full adoption process so that Valérie would also be recognized as a mother. Sandrine no longer wants her to be.

Then began five years of procedures, files to fill out, extracts of their steps to undertake PMA in Spain - even before the legalization of Marriage for All in 2013 and PMA (medically assisted procreation) for all in 2022 - at find and provide justice.

The family record book is complete

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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (TCD) -- A Central California couple has been convicted of several charges and acquitted on others in connection with the disappearance and deaths of their two young adopted sons.

Kern County Superior Court records show a jury found Trezell West and Jacqueline West guilty of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, two counts of willful cruelty to children, and false report of emergency for the deaths of 4-year-old Orrin West and 3-year-old Orson West. The jury could not return a verdict on charges of conspire to commit a crime and another count of second-degree murder.

According to the Bakersfield Californian, the second-degree murder conviction relates to Orrin’s death, but the jury could not determine if they murdered Orson. There is reportedly a possibility that Kern County prosecutors may retry the defendants for the two charges the jurors could not agree on.

A seven-judge Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a decision that the adoption of a teenage girl by her foster mother, against the wishes of her birth mother, is correct.

It followed a majority decision of the Court of Appeal (COA) overturning a June 2022 High Court judgment that found the adoption of the girl, who was 17 at the time, would not serve her best interests.

The girl, who is now a young woman and referred to as Ms B, was born with foetal alcohol syndrome with associated global development delay and a moderate general learning disability.

This syndrome was due to her birth mother drinking alcohol to excess during the first trimester of her pregnancy in order to cope with emotional, physical and sexual abuse by her husband, and not knowing she was pregnant at the time.

The High Court’s Mr Justice Max Barrett had said that, while Ms B indicated a desire to be adopted by her foster mother, who she referred to as “mum”, he was “not entirely persuaded” she fully understood the significance of adoption.

Abandoned children at the airport, defrauding adoptive parents: the Belgian government was aware of abuses surrounding adoptions from South Korea in the 1970s, according to archive documents. Yet nothing was done.

Scott Lieberman, an American who lives in San Francisco, always knew that he was adopted from Chile. What he did not know was that he had been stolen as an infant.

“I lived 42 years of my life without knowing that I was stolen, not knowing what was happening down in Chile during the 70s and 80s and I just, I want people to know… There are families out there that can still be reunited,” Lieberman said.

During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90), many babies were funneled to adoption agencies. Some of the children came from rich families, taken or given up to protect reputations. Other babies from poorer backgrounds were simply stolen – as it appears was the case with Lieberman.

In the last decade, CNN has documented multiple cases of Chilean babies who were stolen at birth. Authorities in the country say priests, nuns, doctors, nurses and others conspired to carry out illegal adoptions, with the main motive being profit.

A magistrate considered certain of the facts alleged against the association Le Rayon de soleil de l'enfant alien to be time-barred, but she agreed to investigate the offense of concealment of fraud.

A Parisian investigating judge has been investigating since mid-April the complaint of seven French people denouncing their adoption in Mali, organized according to them fraudulently by an authorized association, Agence France-presse (AFP) learned on Friday May 26 from a close source. folder. This complaint with the constitution of a civil party, after a first simple complaint filed by the Paris prosecutor's office, targets the association Le Rayon de soleil de l'enfant alien (RSEE), and a former local manager, Danielle Boudault, for acts, revealed by Le Monde , which allegedly occurred between 1989 and 1996, which concern children born in Mali between 1984 and 1993.

The complainants accuse the association and its former manager of having “duped the Malian biological parents (…) and the French adoptive parents” . After long procedural disputes, a Parisian magistrate ruled on April 17 that part of the alleged facts were time-barred, but she agreed to investigate the offense of concealment of fraud.

The Salvation Army is increasingly doing more in the field of sustainability. Buildings are becoming greener , waste is better processed and with special tools we try to better manage and reduce our energy consumption . Employees are also increasingly concerned with sustainability. Three of them talk about how they contribute in their own lives.

Ineke van Buren

"I now work in relief work at the Salvation Army, but in 1985 I studied the Environment in Wageningen. So in addition to relief work, I think the environment is important anyway. I haven't eaten meat since I was seventeen and, for example, travel by train as much as possible In addition, I buy my clothing second-hand and if I buy something new, I ensure that it is made sustainably.

Making sustainable choices is sometimes expensive or inconvenient. For example, the train is more expensive than the plane and sustainable cleaning products are also more expensive than non-sustainable products. But can it also cost us something? You have to leave other things behind.

What you need to see clearly is the difference between being sustainable and looking after the little ones. You now see that many organizations and companies are taking a step towards a sustainable future, but this is driven by financial incentives. The financial incentive helps, but it is better to take a step back and see what really helps."

A 5-year-old boy whose skull was fractured when his mother's live-in boyfriend struck him with a mop handle, breaking it in half, has been beaten, neglected, and tortured repeatedly, the Volusia Sheriff's Office revealed on Saturday.

Investigators discovered video surveillance from inside the DeLand-area home revealing the child once had his hands tied behind his back for more than 19 hours. Doctors examining him found, in addition to the skull fracture, 46 visible injuries as well as internal injuries, Volusia Sheriff's spokesman Andrew Gant said in a news release.

There were three children in the home, including an 8-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy.

"The torture these kids endured is hard to imagine. The good news is they're in safe hands now, and their scumbag abusers will have to answer for what they did," Sheriff Mike Chitwood wrote in a Facebook post Saturday.

At least 19 children and young adults were abused in several ways in an SOS Kinderdorpen in Suriname fore more than 30 years. In a report, the research firm Verinorm speaks of sexual, emotional, physical, and financial abuse. This includes rape, neglect, beating, and whipping.

The study was commissioned by SOS Kinderdorpen following reports of violence and sexual abuse in Children's Villages in 2021. For the study, Verinorm analyzed documents and conducted 35 interviews, including with victims and former staff. It emerged that the abuse took place from the founding of the Children's Village in 1972 until its closure in 2006.

Among others, five managers, almost half of the responsible managers, were allegedly guilty of abuse. According to the report, this "creates the impression that the abuse by managers was structural in nature”. One of the managers was sentenced by the court to 3,5 years in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.

At the SOS Children's Village, investigators said, there was "too little supervision, monitoring and enforcement," and indications of abuse were "not taken seriously enough" by the humanitarian organization.