The Karnataka High Court has said that an adoption deed or registered document is not a must to prove the adoption of a child. If conditions of valid

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What started as a complaint from the Leithgöb family about the slow progress on their criminal case against the accused, and following the PPU’s involvement, culminated in the police identifying dozens more victims of the alleged scam.

Van den Berg is alleged to have offered services as an adoption social worker, where she would charge prospective adoptive parents, many incapable of having children, for various services in the process to adopt a child. It is alleged that the accused did this, when in fact there was no child to adopt or a child had been offered to the hopeful parents, despite the biological mother not giving consent for adoption. Her alleged offences date back to 2014.

When the PPU took on the case, the police were only investigating a charge of fraud. In a letter in May last year, Adv. Gerrie Nel, head of the PPU, advised the investigating officer on the serious nature of the alleged offences. “We are concerned that more babies have been sold under similar circumstances that the complainant had to endure. The prevalence of such conduct does raise serious consideration that the suspect’s alleged behaviour could be likened to and fall within the ambit of trafficking.

“Furthermore, the suspect seems to be continuing with her devious manipulation because of the vulnerability of childless people. Decisive investigation and action by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the National Prosecuting Authority are essential to deal with, what seems to be, a serial fraudster or trafficker of babies,” said Nel.

 

PPU spokesperson, Barry Bateman says Van den Berg preyed on the vulnerability of men and women who yearned to be called mom and dad. “It is alleged that the prospective parents’ were shown pictures of a child they hoped and prayed they would one day adopt, meanwhile the same child was promised to another couple, who were shown the same pictures, and who eventually adopted that child.”

-- The culprits for the disappearance of 404 adoption files from the Bucharest Court were discovered, but left unpunished, being tolerated by the Ministry of Justice * The judge who dealt with most adoptions is Claudia Gherbovan - Silinescu, the daughter of the former General SIE Constantin Silinescu * Other magistrates involved: Florea Visan, Mirela Pod, Mihai Tomescu, Daniela Bragau

Yesterday, the former Minister of Justice Valeriu Stoica presented to the press a shocking document, which sheds light for the first time on the phenomenon of child adoptions and the disappearance of 404 adoption files from the archives of the Bucharest Court, crimes for which no one has been punished so far . A control carried out by the inspector judges Gabriela Barsan, Carmen Grigore, George Ezer and Iulian Teodoriu, from the Court of Appeal and respectively the Ministry of Justice, between April and May 1997, tried to establish the responsibilities for the disappearance from the archives of the Bucharest Court of 404 files of adoptions.The criminal phenomenon, of maximum gravity, happened in the period 1990 - 1995, it was found that 173 files are missing from the period 1990 - 1993, and the remaining 231 from the period 1994 - 1995. When exactly these files disappeared, it was not possible to specify with certainty, but the names of the judges and clerks involved in the adoption industry have been established, who escaped disciplinary sanctions on the grounds that they can no longer be applied, according to Law 92/1992 on judicial organization, only within 1 year of on the date of committing the acts. On the criminal side, however, we specify that the General Prosecutor's Office buried these files, the prosecutors proving to be complicit with those who stole and destroyed the 404 files from the TB archives, in order to cover the traces of an "international trade" in children.Organized thieves in gangs

The judicial control found that some of the causes that allowed the cases to disappear were "the lack of responsibility of the presidents of the sections and the judges and clerks who resolved these cases; non-compliance with the procedures regarding the registration and resolution of these cases; failure to stop this phenomenon, by not taking measures which were imposed, as a result of the notification to the Ministry of Justice since 1994; the application of overly lenient sanctions to auxiliary personnel".The files were taken out of the courtroomThe control note notes the involvement of some clerks in the falsification of reports, the signing of sentences by clerks and for judges, the names of Simona Radulescu and Iuliana Craciun being mentioned. The note also states: "Regarding two files, on March 12, 1996, the lawyer Sega Marius appeared (no - he became a judge at Section Ia of the Bucharest Court today), who requested their reinstatement, AFLANDU FILES - SE LA HIM. This lawyer declared on March 14, 1996, according to the report drawn up by the president of the section, judge Doina Popescu, that he had the mentioned files from an Italian, who in turn had them from an official who worked at the court ".Even the sentences from the map were stolenRegarding three files, no. 3112/95, 3473/95 and 5794/95 from the IVth Civil Section, resolved in the same session of September 14, 1995 (full court: Daniela Bragau, Florea Visan and Silvia Ruxandu) all sentences had the same number, respectively 860 bis. The files have disappeared, including the clerk's notebooks (he has gone abroad for good), but this case is particularly remarkable because a criminal hand stole even the sentences from the sentence folder, which is kept separately from the main archive.Changes of dubious termsThe files 9044/94, 9161/94 and 5400/95, from the 3rd Civil Section, all resolved on June 26, 1996, were initially suspended. After about a year, the suspended files were resumed in a dubious manner, "as a result of pending reinstatements that are not registered in any register, even on the day they are brought directly to the hearing, without the judge verifying the request for reinstatement on the roll (full court: Mirela Pod, Mihai Tomescu and Firoiu Magdalena). The two files from 1994 disappeared without being able to prove "that after the verdict they were handed over to the archive under the signature of (registry Magdalena Firoiu)". the file from 1995, the judicial inspectors found that in it there were several requests to change the term "given by the president of the section at that time, Mirela Pod, which appear at least bizarre,General SIE's daughter, hardworking as a beeThe control also noted: "Another cause that led to the perpetuation of the phenomenon over time was the distribution of files by sections, respectively their judgment primarily by the 3rd Civil Section, especially by a certain panel: Daniela Bragau and Claudia Gherbovan - Silinescu" (who is the daughter of General Constantin Silinescu, who was then deputy director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, married to the lawyer Radu Gherbovan). Eloquent for how these files were managed is the fact that the adoption files were moved from one civil section to another, depending on how the judges assigned to them were moved. Thus, with the move of judge Daniela Bragau from Section III to Section IV, the files went on the same route, in violation of the legal provisions in the matter. The inspectors found that in most cases, the judges and clerks did not report the disappearance of the files on a hierarchical line: "These operations were obviously done deliberately by those who had their management". It was noted that following the moving of the Elena Cortel archive, from the archive of the III department, a series of conditions and registers considered to have disappeared miraculously appeared.cover upContacted in 1997 with two criminal complaints regarding the disappearance of hundreds of files, the prosecutors of the General Prosecutor's Office acted incompetently, classifying the files with the initials "authors unknown" on the grounds that it was "impossible" to track down the culprits. The lie of the Prosecutor's Office is obvious, because the results of the checks of the inspecting judges clearly retained the names of clerks and judges. No one can believe that 404 files can disappear overnight, without showing in the registers who and how they last took them, in order to be held accountable. In this regard, the inspection report reached the following conclusion regarding the crimes found: "Currently,Stanoiu reopened the investigationAt the time when Minister Rodica Stanoiu left the portfolio of Justice, there remained to be completed, at the level of the General Inspection, a voluminous material related to the disappearance of adoption files. The investigation into the adoption files was reopened as a result of the scandal related to the reports of some high representatives of the EU, who exposed the fact that there were clear cases of corruption, when dozens of adoption sentences were pronounced in a single day, from to the same judge. As part of the re-opened investigation, the past activity of other TB magistrates, among them Vice President Costica Iconomu, as well as judge Doina Picearca, from the Bucharest Court of Appeal, former prosecutor of the TB session, in some adoption cases, is being analysed

Hyderabad: An Italian couple has adopted a 10-year-old orphan from Karimnagar. The couple from Casarsa della Delizia, Italy, was handed over the child after completing formalities as per the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) guidelines.

“I interacted with the child. He was comfortable with the Italian couple, who came to adopt him. I have also advised him to maintain contact with us and keep us informed about his well-being in Italy,” district collector B Gopi told TOI on Wednesday.

The boy was taken care by Sishu Vihar till he was six years. Thereafter, he was in the care of the authorities at a different place. The Italian couple spoke only Italian and an English interpreter accompanied them as the child was formally handed over in adoption to them.

As per CARA rules, prospective parents seeking to adopt a child, whether, they are from within the country or abroad, should fulfil certain criteria. They will not be given a choice on whether they will be given a boy or a girl in adoption. However, an attempt will be made to accommodate their request. The profile of a child is first sent to the prospective parents, who register as per CARA norms. The child will formally be given in adoption to them once they respond within 96 hours.

MUMBAI: The Bhoiwada police have arrested four persons, including three women, allegedly involved in illegal adoption of a seven- day-old baby.
The accused made a fake agreement on a stamp paper to make it look like a genuine adoption. The biological mother of the boy, who is from Pratapgarh in UP, is among those arrested.
 

Those arrested are Bhiwandi residents Rubina Akhtar (26), Irshad Istiaq Rangrez (33), his wife Tahira (28) and Heena Parveen (28), the mother of the baby from UP. They have been charged with child trafficking, criminal conspiracy and negligence.
The crime came to light when Rangrez and Tahira, who are childless, brought the baby to Wadia Hospital for jaundice treatment. On inquiry, Tahira told doctors that she had adopted the baby from her sister-in-law.

The doctors asked them to get an NOC from the police. The cops got suspicious and upon a thorough probe found that it was a case of illegal adoption.

On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants  for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, based on their alleged war crimes of unlawful transfer and unlawful deportation of Ukraine’s children.

Russia’s propaganda machine reacted swiftly to the ICC’s decision, with threats of nuclear strikes, false claims about Western “experiments on children ” and anti-Russian “hysteria ,” calls for the arrest of ICC judges, and claims that Ukraine’s children were taken away “for their safety .” Russia’s Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev threatened  The Hague with a hypersonic  missile  and compared  the warrants to toilet paper . Kremlin propagandists Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan claimed  that nuclear strikes await any country daring enough to arrest Putin. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused  the “enlightened West” of “criminalizing the rescue of children” while the same Western countries are “experimenting on kids with gender reassignments.” Separately, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin claimed  that “the West is hysterical” and any “invectives” against Putin will be seen as aggression against Russia, adding, “Yankees, hands off Putin!” Similarly, Russia’s Embassy in Washington  called “U.S. validation” of the warrants “reminiscent of sluggish schizophrenia ” and pointed  to “U.S. atrocities” elsewhere. Several Russian senators  proposed issuing arrest warrants  for the ICC judges and “liquidating ” the International Criminal Court. This report examines the context of the ICC charges and Russia’s efforts to manipulate information and deflect blame about the alleged war crimes.

Since February 24, 2022, when the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, attempting to topple the democratically elected government in Kyiv, members of Russia’s forces committed numerous internationally documented war crimes and crimes against humanity  in Ukraine, including against many of Ukraine’s children. On June 5, 2023, the Secretary General of the United Nations added  Russia’s armed forces and affiliated armed groups to the list of parties that have committed “grave violations affecting children in situations of armed conflict” for reportedly killing and maiming hundreds of Ukraine’s children, using them as human shields, and attacking schools and hospitals.

The Kremlin appears determined to erase Ukraine’s existence as a state by attempting to rob it of its future. Mounting evidence  shows  Russia uses  forcible relocation, re-education, and, in some cases, adoption  of Ukraine’s children as key components  of its systematic efforts  to suppress Ukraine’s identity, history, and culture. The Ukrainian government estimates that Russian authorities have “deported and/or forcibly displaced ” 19,553 children from their homes, including movements into so-called “summer camps” in Russia-occupied areas and sometimes into Russia itself, even to isolated regions in Russia’s Far East. As of August 1, 2023, Ukraine had successfully returned  395 children.

Maria Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, has publicly said  that more than 700,000 children from Ukraine are now in Russia, claiming that the majority were accompanied by guardians and portraying it as a “humanitarian effort.”  The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL), a partner in the State Department-supported Conflict Observatory, reported  that Russia has “systematically relocated at least 6,000 children from Ukraine to a network of re-education and adoption facilities in Russia-occupied Crimea and mainland Russia” since the full-scale invasion began. Yale HRL’s findings  “indicate the majority of camps have engaged in pro-Russia re-education efforts, and some camps have provided military training to children.” The unlawful transfer and deportation  of protected persons is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians and constitutes an internationally recognized war crime .

Over 11 years after a 5-year-old was kidnapped in Bihar’s Siwan district, the Patna High Court recently ordered the State Crime Investigation Department (CID) to re-investigate the case and recover the minor child. [Mansur Alam Versus The State of Bihar]

Justice Anil Kumar Sinha said the local police had not investigated the case scientifically or with the desired sensitivity, forcing the victim’s father to approach the Court in March 2021.

The Court noted that the investigating officers in the case were frequently changed and that the officers appeared to have investigated the case in a piece-meal manner. The judge remarked that even directions issued by the supervising officers were not followed.

Criticising the senior officers for not forming a special team to recover the child, the Court opined that no serious effort were made by the Superintendent of Police and other higher-ranked police officers.

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A former janitor from Castelfranco, she was able to visit the tomb of the woman who gave birth to her and then left her in an orphanage. Thanks to genetic research in the USA she has embraced her relatives

He searches for his real mother all his life and finds her again - when his daughter is 83 years old - on Mother's Day, last May. And all this thanks to a DNA that bounces from Italy, to the USA, to Germany and then lands again in Italy, between Veneto and Friuli.

The story of Dina Zulian, now 85, from Sant'Andrea Oltre Muson , where she is well known, having been the janitor of that school for many years, is nothing short of incredible. But also for her children Marisa, Claudio, Lucia and Raffaella Bellon who managed to fulfill her mother's dream.

Only the human imagination sets limits to what can happen here, says a report written by the Norwegian authorities in 2009. Nevertheless, adoptions continued as before.

• Brazil, 2009: Children tried to be sold for adoption. Mother sells her child for a pair of sandals. 
• Colombia, 2017 : Thousands of children disappear from their parents - and are vulnerable to illegal adoption. Children used for prostitution and human trafficking. 
• Philippines, 2010 : New identity can be obtained on most street corners.

These are alerts Bufdir has received on inspection trips .

In Brazil, a public prosecutor told the children's court about corruption and the buying and selling of children, before saying that only the imagination set limits to what could happen in the country. 

This is revealed in the report Bufdir wrote after the trip in 2009. 

Isidore, a Belgian man, was adopted by a South Indian family in Mobdibri, Karnataka, and works at La Poste. He is a caring and caring person who remembers his past as a poor and lonely Mubdibri orphan. Despite significant financial aid to meet the needs of his wife's family, Isidore finds himself in a situation of divorce without consummating their marriage.

In November 2021, Isidore met a young girl named Yasmina, whom he had previously introduced him to on a social network. Yasmina decided to marry Isidore despite their age difference. They got married on February 18, 2022, but Isidore felt something was unclear in his new life. He made all the necessary arrangements for her to come to Belgium and stay with him permanently.

On May 10, 2023, Isidore's wife left for Belgium, but she refused her residence permit valid for 5 years, which allowed her to travel in Europe and return to her country. She returned to India after only 3 weeks.

On June 22, 2023, Isidore collected evidence, messages, documents, and internal inquiries into his couple and the real situation in Ince, Pondicherry. He discovered that the girl had been playing with him for a long time and was interested in taking his money and valuables. He also discovered that the girl was friends with a neighborhood boy whom she had romantic feelings for before their marriage but had played pretend to be interested in him.