The court ordered custody of the child to be given to the biological mother after she alleged that the adoption involved a baby-selling racket.

The court also dismissed a review petition filed by the adopting parents of the child against the 2022 order.

By Vidya : Observing that a biological mother has "the right to have custody of her child" and that "giving and taking of the child in adoption is not proved", a Mumbai court ordered an adopting couple to return the child to its biological parents.

The court said that just because the custody of the child was with the adoptive parents does not give them "any right to retain the child with them."

Nicola Sturgeon will issue an official apology after 60,000 women were forced to give up their babies for adoption, the Daily Record understands.

The First Minister’s apology will be one of her last acts in office and is expected next week.

Tens of thousands of mums had their babies adopted simply because they were unmarried.

The coercion, covering the 1950s through to the 1970s, caused lasting heartache and campaigners have demanded an apology from the state.

Many of the mothers have died and will not hear the apology, which is expected to cover the mums, dads and children affected.

Italy legalised same-sex civil unions in 2016, overriding opposition from Catholic and conservative groups, yet it fell short of giving them adoption rights, fearing that it would encourage surrogate pregnancies, which remain illegal

Milan: Italy’s right-wing government has told Milan’s city council to stop registering same-sex parents’ children, re-igniting a debate around Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s conservative agenda.

Italy legalised same-sex civil unions in 2016, overriding opposition from Catholic and conservative groups, yet it fell short of giving them adoption rights, fearing that it would encourage surrogate pregnancies, which remain illegal.

In the absence of clear legislation on the issue some courts have ruled in favour of allowing same-sex couples to adopt each others’ children, and mayors of some cities, including Milan, have registered surrogate births to same-sex couples.

Milan’s centre-left mayor Giuseppe Sala said on Monday he had received a letter from the interior ministry telling him to stop registering the children of same-sex couples.

A study on international adoption brings together topical discussion and studies carried out in four European countries concerning international adoption.

The adoption study examines reviews of adoption that have been carried out or that are under way in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland. These countries were selected for the study because they have carried out such reviews in recent years.

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the reasons that had led to the reviews, the countries of origin for adoption, and the measures taken based on the reviews in each of the four countries.

In addition to country reports and reviews, the study drew on literature on adoption and data on national and international legislation. To obtain background information on the issues, the study team met with representatives of the Finnish Adoption Board and the Ministry of Justice, which are the Finnish central authorities, and the City of Helsinki Department of Social Services, Interpedia and Save the Children Finland, which provide intercountry adoption services.

Discussion on adoption continues in Finland

A woman from the Enz district was sentenced to six months imprisonment without probation by the Foreign Chamber of the Karlsruhe Regional Court on Wednesday for defamation.

The woman was accused of repeatedly calling Oana Krichbaum, the wife of MP Gunther Krichbaum (CDU), both of whom acted as joint plaintiffs, as a child trafficker on Facebook. With the verdict, a story that has been smoldering for years comes to an end – at least for the time being.

4,000 pages of court files have accumulated in the process

In 2019, after five days of hearings, the district court sentenced the woman to six months probation. Both the defendants' defense and the public prosecutor's office had appealed against this. The process, which has now come to an end, dragged on for eleven days of negotiations, during which a mountain of files of around 4,000 pages had accumulated.

In his detailed reasoning, Judge Stefan Bien emphasized that the previously unconvicted defendant could not be dealt with by a suspended sentence. This is shown by the fact that she did not accept the 2019 judgment and then continued her activities. According to Bien, several disciplinary decisions in civil proceedings could not have slowed the woman down. "Only detention will stop them," the judge said.

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The orphanages were overcrowded and filthy, the living conditions unworthy. At the beginning of the 1990s, Romanian children were redeemed through adoptions - so it seemed. But what actually became of them is uncertain. The fear: Many could have fallen into the hands of human traffickers.

By Andreea Pocotila

and Dan Alexe

BUCHAREST. When twins Zoe and Mikaela Radford were left by their birth parents in a maternity ward in the small Romanian town of Puciosa in 1991, they were only a few days old. They were adopted and moved to Canada with their foster parents - it is said. Little Jonathan Yourtee was probably taken to a hospital in Constanta by his parents. In 1991 he was taken over by a family from the United States. Later, the new parents also adopted Jonathan's brother Matthew. In 1995 he left home, the destination is unknown.

No love, no human contact, languishing and forgotten in the home: Under the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceau?escu, babies who did not fit the norm were mercilessly sorted out. Whats become of you?

Izidor spent the first three years of his life in the hospital.

The dark-eyed, dark-haired boy, born June 20, 1980, was abandoned when he was a few weeks old. The reason for this was obvious to all who looked: His right leg was twisted. After an illness (probably polio) he had been thrown into the sea of ??abandoned infants in the Socialist Republic of Romania.

In films from the period that capture the care of orphans, nurses are seen like assembly line workers wrapping newborns from a seemingly endless supply; with muscular arms and careless indifference, they toss the children onto a square cloth, expertly knot it into a neat bundle, and place it at the end of a line of silent, worried-looking babies. The women do not speak softly to them or sing to them. You can see the little faces trying to understand what is happening as their heads roll back and forth during the winding manoeuvre.

At his hospital in Sighetu Marma?iei, a mountain town in northern Romania, Izidor was probably fed with a bottle placed in his mouth and propped against the bars of his cot. Well past the age when children in the outer world begin to taste solid foods and then eat for themselves, he and his peers remained on their backs, sucking from bottles whose openings had been widened to allow watery gruel to flow through. Without proper care or physical therapy, the baby's leg muscles atrophied. At the age of three he was found "deficient" and transferred to the other side of town to a C?min Spital Pentru Copii Deficien?i , a home for unsavable children.

In the winter of 1989/1990, the pictures from Romanian orphanages went around the world: they showed children who were completely neglected, could no longer walk or speak and threw their excrement at the photographer. Small children severely handicapped by their mothers' illegal attempts at abortion crouched in unheated shacks.

In the winter of 1989/1990, the pictures from Romanian orphanages went around the world: they showed children who were completely neglected, could no longer walk or speak and threw their excrement at the photographer. Small children severely handicapped by their mothers' illegal attempts at abortion crouched in unheated shacks. For years they were vegetated by the "euthanasia of circumstances" under Ceausescu. With the international helpers, the demand for adopted children grew as a form of individual crisis management. Between 1989 and 1991 alone, Romania placed 10,000 children in the care of international foster parents. But shady businessmen quickly benefited from those spontaneous relief efforts and bought children from Romanian parents, who in turn delivered them to couples in Western Europe. Even births were paid for if the children were "marketable". The Romanian government tightened the adoption conditions in 1995: since then, only children from orphanages that are registered by the Romanian Adoption Committee are to be passed on. Despite the declining birth rate, around 150,000 children live in Romanian homes today - more than ever before.

According to UNICEF, Guatemala is a "paradise for child traffickers". In 1998 alone, more than 1,300 babies were placed for adoption abroad. Almost 200 lawyers and notaries live from the child trafficking business and collect up to 30,000 marks from the adoptive parents. According to UNICEF, pregnant women are required to sign the adoption papers. Other parents sell their children. Children's homes and doctors also benefit from the flourishing business with the babies.

Child trafficking is particularly thriving on the Internet: Like in a mail order catalogue, future adoptive parents can choose a child on the websites of private brokers. 3-year-old Oleg from Kazakhstan and his twin brother Zhenya were put up for adoption online for $23,000, payable in three installments - including travel expenses and immigration papers. The agency advertises that the two are "loving and active" and get along well with children and adults. They also had a sense of humor. The mother, the agency claims, abandoned the boys. In the meantime, the twins can no longer be found on the website - they were probably "bought" by adoptive parents.

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The young woman from the Allgäu did not know her biological mother before. Now she has visited her in Romania.

Roberta, 23:

I was adopted from an orphanage in Romania. I was two years and three months old then, now I'm 23 and have finished my training as a physiotherapist. My parents told me that the home was very poor. Later they adopted another little boy, who is my brother to me.

I have often intended to search for the woman who gave birth to me and gave me away. Especially during puberty I sometimes felt a little strange, not belonging. And then one day, that was in 2016, I just did it. I wanted to close the issue for myself. I had her name and about her age. When I saw a woman on Facebook, I knew immediately: This is her. We look alike. I thought it was pretty cool that there are still people who look a lot like me. I've never had anyone who looked like me.

I skyped with her. She was pretty nervous, I just a little bit. Then we planned my trip to Romania, we had discussed that my parents would come with me. They support me a lot in every way.

Following VG's revelations about illegal adoption, Minister for Children and Families Kjersti Toppe (Sp) is now inviting adoptees to a meeting. - I want to bring to light what has happened, she says.

VG has told the story of Camilla Austbø (37) who was illegally adopted to Norway.

Camilla was three years old when she was abducted from her own home in Ecuador, sold, and adopted to an unsuspecting couple in Skien.

VG has also told the story of Simon and several other adoptees from Ecuador. All came to Norway via a lawyer who was accused of buying and selling children for adoption.

Now Minister for Children and Families Kjersti Toppe wants to meet them.