The Mandate Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Women Affairs Secretariat, Mrs Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi,  disclosed recently, that  the FCT Administration had sealed off an orphanage in Karonmajigi, the Priesthood Orphanage, after 23 children, aged 1 – 14 years, allegedly trafficked from Plateau state were supposedly rescued from the orphanage.

She also added that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, had authorised the Secretariat to profile and recertify orphanages operating within the nation’s capital.

But, this case is not an isolated one as issues of orphan abuses in orphanage homes have become a recurring decimal in the nation’s polity.

Before this development, we recall that in 2017, the FCTA had  also clamped down on illegal orphanages operating in the city over alleged negligence and other nefarious acts.

A surrogate mother who's currently in a dilemma has taken to social media to seek advice from netizens 

The lady revealed how she carried a baby for a rich couple who unexpectedly divorced and refused to take the baby at the time 

In a chat with a doctor, Amicable Chukwu, she told Legit.ng that a surrogate mother has no right to ownership of a baby 

A surrogate mother who carried a child for a rich couple has shared her experience one year after the contract. 

The lady identified as @chelsea_lugard on TikTok narrated that the couple had refused to take the baby after she gave birth because they had serious marital issues. 

MARGAO:

The Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (GSCPCR) has called for urgent and decisive action against the troubling rise in illegal adoption and human trafficking in Goa. The commission's plea is directed towards law enforcement agencies, government officials, and the public to unite in combating these illicit activities.

GSCPCR has further urged that there be an immediate formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to thoroughly investigate these cases, bring perpetrators to justice, and prevent future exploitation.

To back their demand, GSCPCR pointed out that in recent years, they have identified multiple cases that reveal a disturbing pattern of illegal adoptions and potential connections to human trafficking networks.

According to her passport she is 51 years old. The question is whether that is correct. So little is known about the background of Kim ten Hagen, who was adopted from South Korea in 1975. A 'media offensive' must change that.

AONLY A FEW MINUTES AFTER I enter the door, Louise Stenstrup shows me into the bright children's room in the apartment in the middle of Copenhagen. Or, it is probably more accurate to say the room that might become a children's room. It resonates a little when we talk, because right now there is only a light blue chest of drawers and on top of it a framed picture of a four-year-old boy with a nice smile and a gray sweatshirt.

" He is the one I am matched with," she says.

Louise knows from a thick case file that the boy in the picture loves watermelon and doesn't like scary movies, and that he is caring towards small children. And that he lives in an orphanage in South Africa, where he was born out of wedlock to a woman who gave him up at birth. Louise also knows that the biological mother later confirmed at the court in South Africa that she does not want him.

Since August 30, 2023, 43-year-old Louise Stenstrup has known that she and the four-year-old boy had been matched, as it is called, and that she was to be his mother. He was supposed to be her son. She has seen videos of him and feels a strong bond with him already. “ It was overwhelming to see him for the first time. I think you can compare it to when you see the scan image for the first time. And here you could really form an impression of who he is. Is he happy? Now I have tried both things, both seeing a scan image and then this. After all, it's a completely different idea when you don't just see a fetus, but a very small human being.”

Since August last year, she has been waiting for the South African authorities to issue a release certificate for her son, a so-called section 17c, so that she can travel to South Africa and meet him and, after a month there, take him to Denmark. Now she has no idea if that will ever happen. " It is extremely difficult that you suddenly do not know whether the ideas you have had will become real. It is the same fear that you have as a pregnant woman, that you will lose the child, which I think most people who have been through it can nod in recognition of.”

What you need to know:

• Justice John Eudes Keitirima of the Family Division in Makindye said the official fees for filing an adoption case in the court is Shs6,000 but many people engage lawyers to help them in the entire process.

What you need to know:

• Justice John Eudes Keitirima of the Family Division in Makindye said the official fees for filing an adoption case in the court is Shs6,000 but many people engage lawyers to help them in the entire process.

Child rights activists and adoptive parents have asked the government to put up an adoption centre for children.

The revelation was made yesterday during an adoption awareness conference in Kampala under the theme “Bringing hope to a generation through adoption’’.
Adoption refers to the action of legally taking another person’s child and bringing him or her up as one’s own.

While the CID claims it is still investigating matters, affected families hold on to hope and several of the accused – said to have political connections – are out on bail.

Jalpaiguri: It has been over eight years since Kajal Basfor last saw her son, Ganesh. In 2016, Ganesh ran away after facing his mother’s scolding and a beating. As per the Child Helpline record, he was found at New Jalpaiguri Station in North Bengal, following which the police took him to a temporary shelter.

Kajal came to Jalpaiguri hoping for a reunion, but was instead locked up at a shelter home called Ashraya. Her three-year-old daughter Dipali was forcefully taken away to another shelter home, Bimala Shishu Griha. While Kajal was released after a few days, Dipali was held captive at the home.

Seeking help, Kajal and her husband approached the Jalpaiguri Child Welfare Centre and the district collector. The Child Welfare Centre clarified that two members of the Child Welfare Committee, seeing Kajal’s emotional state, deemed her unfit to raise a child, leading to their separation.

Kajal finally got to reunite with her daughter after a few months, but the search for Ganesh is still on. “They returned my daughter as she looks a lot like me. I heard that my son is living at a home, but I am yet to meet him,” said Kajal, who lives in Birpara, around 63 km from Jalpaiguri town in West Bengal.

In a rare instance, SC stepped around Muslim personal law and awarded custody of a 1 old girl to her foster parents reversing an Orissa HC ruling allowing the biological pare take back their daughter, one of the twins who was left in foster care when she was 2- months old

New Delhi: In a rare instance, SC stepped around Muslim personal law and awarded custody of a 14-year-old girl to her foster parents reversing an Orissa HC ruling allowing the biological parents to take back their daughter, one of the twins who was left in foster care when she was 2-3 months old.

A bench of Justices C T Ravikumar and Rajesh Bindal interacted with the girl, who categorically stated that she was happy with the foster parents with whom she had lived for a decade and half and concluded that in the best interest and welfare of the child, her custody with foster parents should not be disturbed.

Twin daughters were born at Ranchi, where their maternal grandmother resided, to Rourkela-based biological parents in March 2010. As the parents were unable to take care of twins, one was left with the mother’s unmarried sister Shazia Aman Khan when the child was 2-3 months old. Since then, she had lived with her aunt, who later got married and had two children.

- I was so worried that I walked around with palpitations. I didn't see any other option than to notify, says Freja Bøggild to VG. 

It was Danwatch and DR that published the first interviews with her. 

As an employee of the Swedish Appeals Board, Freja Bøggild investigated several thousand adoption cases, she says. 

She says she was shocked by what she saw:

- Although my job felt meaningful, I was put off by the cynicism and indifference that characterized the system.