Nigel Cantwell <cantabene@gmail.com>

Mon, Nov 27, 5:50 PM (9 days ago)

to Arun, me

Arun -

I hereby request you to remove immediately from YouTube the video of the interview I did with you in January 2021, as well as from any other medium on which you may have posted it without my consent or knowledge.

Rani (39) from Maarheeze was just 2 years old when she was adopted from her native India by a Flemish couple. She soon had numerous problems with her adoptive parents. She recently learned that her biological mother is probably still alive and started a search. “My adoptive parents hid this from me for years.”

Rani was picked up in India by her adoptive father. “I had tapeworms in my intestines when I entered Belgium. In all likelihood, I was ill and that is why my biological mother had to give me up,” says Rani.

She initially had a good relationship with her adoptive father, which she never had with her adoptive mother. “We tried to bond by going on trips together, but she never felt like my 'real' mother,” says Rani. As a four-year-old she already realized that these were not her biological parents. “My skin color was different and I was forced to say mom and dad.”

"I was locked in a garden shed."

Soon her relationship with her father also changed and a tense atmosphere arose within the family. Rani says she grew up in a loveless family. “I was abused on several fronts: beaten, locked in a garden shed and several times I had to sleep in my father's bath or garage. Sometimes my father wouldn't talk to me for days. He said I couldn't do anything and was unmanageable,” says Rani.

Trafficking in childrenAn overview of the current situationin Germany 2020

Former CIA agent Tim Ballard's membership of the Mormon church is in doubt after a records search showed he does not appear on the institution's database, fueling suggestions he has been excommunicated, DailyMail.com has learned.

Ballard, whose story was turned into the hit film 'Sound of Freedom' starring Jim Caviezel, has been accused by several women of sexual harassment during his leadership of the anti-trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad (OUR).

The 47-year-old is alleged to have pushed the women into sharing a bed with him or showering together, telling them it was to convince traffickers they were married.

In response, the Mormon church - of which Ballard is a member - last month released a coded statement condemning 'activity regarded as morally unacceptable', without stating what this activity was.

But it appears the church has now severed ties with the married father-of-nine altogether, with a search of its internal database failing to produce his records.

KOLORIANG, 21 Nov: Women & Child Development (WCD) Director Tokmem Pertin Loyi during an ‘awareness camp on legal adoption’ at the DC’s conference hall here in Kurung Kumey district on Tuesday appealed to the people to adopt children legally.

Loyi, who was on a weeklong tour of the district to participate in the ongoing celebration of the National Adoption Awareness Month, said that “adopting legal

means to adopt children saves the adopting parents from legal complicacies in future.”

The WCD director explained the concepts of adoption; authorities and agencies for adoption; who can be adopted; who can adopt; age criteria of prospective parents; and punitive provisions.

During an awareness programme, screening of videos and presentations on legal adoption were done for the benefit of the public. Kurung Kumey WCD Deputy Director Kago Maya Gyati also spoke.

This too is a record. Council says Tharattu adoption awareness will be launched on Sunday

THE HINDU BUREAU

A record 50 children have been adopted from the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare in the past six months. Of them, 10 children have been adopted by couples abroad, and this too is a record. Eight children adopted by foreign couples this year are differently abled, council general secretary G.L. Arun Gopi has said.

He was speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday to announce the launch of Tharattu, a campaign at the district level this month and the next to create awareness on adoptions with the goal of making the State adoption-friendly.

Mr. Gopi said these children had been adopted from the council’s adoption centres/child care centres after completion of formalities in the six-month period from March to November this year. The 50th child had left the Malappuram adoption centre of the council with its adopted parents on November 18 for Tamil Nadu.

On February 20, 1997, the management of the Bucharest Court, led by judge Viorel Roș, notified the Police about the disappearance from the court archive of 248 civil files with international adoptions as their object.

The then Minister of Justice ordered an extensive check at the Bucharest Court and the judicial inspectors of the higher court, the Bucharest Court of Appeal, found that 404 civil adoption files had disappeared: 173 from the period 1990-1993 and 231 files from the period 1994-1995 .

Along with the files, several minutes of meetings from the years 1994-1995, meeting folders and record books disappeared, reports Radio Europa Liberă.

"I asked for a check to be made and a report on the situation created. The report was made and after that I think a criminal complaint was also made. Unfortunately, as far as I can remember, the criminal investigation did not lead to any results, that is, it did not discover the perpetrators", said Valeriu Stoica, former Minister of Justice.

He says he no longer has the report drawn up at his request, but that it should be in the ministry's archive. The Ministry of Justice claims that in 1997 there was a structure that checked the activity of judges, but it did not find the report ordered by Valeriu Stoica.

At 34, a resident of Soustons born under X found his biological mother thanks to social networks. A month and a half later, Tuesday July 18, Florian Deygas received confirmation of the DNA tests.

The Landais had a presentiment, DNA tests confirmed it on Tuesday July 18. “Leila is my biological mother” , smiles Florian Deygas upon receiving the notification. “I’ve been waiting for this for 34 years, the connections are established ,” explains the resident of Soustons born under X in the Loire, in 1989. A torrent of emotions.

A Twitter message with nearly 4 million views

Barely a month and a half ago, on June 4, Mother's Day, Florian Deygas threw a bottle into the sea , and posted a message on the social network Twitter to his biological mother, of whom he only knows the first name, Leila, and her signature left on her official birth document. The tweet has been seen nearly 4 million times and someone close to Leila recognizes her signature.

The Bombay High Court has lashed out at the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Maharashtra for putting up a child for adoption while the child's father was seeking his custody. The high court bench directed the CWC to get its act right in 48 hours, or else the court would pass an order.

"Tell us, if the mother has abandoned the child, then the biological father has no right? We don't understand how CWC is conducting its cases. This is nothing but high handedness by the CWC. Are they above the law?" the bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Gauri Godse said on Wednesday.

The bench was hearing the petition of a man who had run away with a 16-year-old minor girl and the two had a child. The girl's family registered a case against the man under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and he was arrested.

However, when the girl turned major, she abandoned the child and got married to someone else. The man came out on bail and sought that he be given custody of his child. However, the CWC rejected his application and put up the child for adoption.

Advocate Ashish Dubey, appearing for the petitioner, pointed out that the child was neither abandoned nor orphaned and so the CWC could not have put up the child for adoption. "Adoption will come into the picture only when both parents have abandoned the child...Why do you want to give the child for Adoption? Will the child go to the biological parent or a third party?" Justice Dere asked.

There are three crore orphaned children in India, but only 3,500 to 4,000 children are available for adoption in a year and some 30,000 prospective parents have to wait for three years to bring home a child.

Taking note of this discrepancy, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud observed recently: "Why are they (Central Adoption Resource Authority) stalling adoptions? Why is CARA not doing it? Hundreds of children are awaiting adoption in the hope of a better life." The remarks were made when the Supreme Court was hearing two petitions flagging gaps that were delaying adoptions and making the entire process a sham. The practical difficulties of adoption were also highlighted in the court, with one of the judges bringing out the humane and human aspect and cost to the society.

CARA, a statutory body of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, functions as the central body for adoption of Indian children and is mandated to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions. CARA primarily deals with the adoption of "orphan, abandoned and surrendered" children through its associated and recognised adoption agencies.

Due to red tape and lack of transparency, several thousand children are being deprived of home and the love of parents. With each month's delay, the children grow and age, and their chances of adoptability and adaptability diminishes. The prospective parents, too, lose their precious years doing cumbersome and complicated paperwork. Their financial condition suffers as they scout and wait their turn and are made to visit different adoption centres in the country.

The conditions of the shelter homes where these children are placed are also not hygienic, with funds and staff both short.