As a toddler, Lalita is adopted by a Lucerne family. At the age of 39, she is traveling to India for the first time. The report follows Livia Lalita Zgraggen's search for clues.

An old man with white hair sits behind an old-fashioned reception desk. He raises his head, his eyes glance at us behind his rimless glasses. We say who we are and what we want. He looks a bit grumpy, then wiggles his head in that vague Indian way and picks up the phone. With a wave of his hand he motions for us to take a seat. We sit down on a hard, fabric-covered wooden bench and wait.

It's quiet in the small room, the heat shimmers outside the windows with fly screens. A bird caws somewhere, the hot air from the fan turns above us. Along the wall are bags of toys, boxes of washing powder and other things; probably donations for the children here: It is 2 p.m., June 2018, and we are at St. Catherine's Home, an orphanage in a poor district of Mumbai (formerly Bombay).

The Indian sisters know nothing. Or is it?

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Shortly after June Smith gave birth, a nurse at the Royal Women’s Hospital gave her two white pills.

She asked what they were for.

“The nurse said: ‘To dry up your milk’," Ms Smith says. "I said: ‘But I’m keeping him’. Her words were: ‘You will not be allowed to keep him’.

Fifty-eight years later Ms Smith, 77, and Lynette Kinghorn, 73, are suing the Royal Women’s Hospital and adoption agencies in the Victorian County Court for damages.

Their legal counsel, Shine Lawyers, says the two women objected to their children being put up for adoption and the medical professionals entrusted with their care should have ensured their wishes were respected.

Armenia shocked by baby selling network as the country's top obstetrician and orphanage head are arrested over scheme that sold children to Westerners\

The chief gynaecologist, the head of an orphanage and officials were arrested

The alleged black market adoption market has been operating for years

Syuzan Patvakanyan revealed she was blackmailed into giving up her baby

Armenia has launched an investigation into an apparent underground baby-selling network.

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AHMEDABAD: A 39-year-old man failed to secure custody of his threeyear-old daughter through a habeas corpus petition after his estranged

wife handed over the daughter to an orphanage, from where the child was

given in adoption to a couple not known to the father.

On Monday, the Gujarat high court rejected the habeas corpus petition

saying that the child is not under any illegal confinement and hence the

When it turns out that Reina and her husband cannot have children, it feels like a heavy loss. But their story has turned for the better: through adoption, they now enjoy their children and grandchildren.

“In the beginning, people sometimes looked surprised when they saw a dark child in the pram. We lived in the countryside in Drenthe, so you didn't see that much. Fortunately, we received a lot of positive reactions.”

Reina is in her early twenties when she discovers that she and her husband cannot have children. She married when she was eighteen, her husband was 26 years old. “I'm a Baptist and my husband was of Catholic descent, but at that time he didn't have anything to do with the faith,” says Reina (67). “Even before our marriage, it was a struggle, including with his parents. So we got married pretty quickly. We had a great desire to have children, especially me: women didn't work like that in those days."

Shame

But Reina doesn't get pregnant. “In the hospital it became clear that my husband was infertile. He has yet to have surgery and the gynecologist suggested artificial insemination, but that was not in line with my belief. It was difficult to talk about it, I was ashamed of it. When my sister and friends did have children, I found it very difficult. I must have said to God: why everyone and not me? But I can't remember praying for it. I also had to deal with it alone, because my husband was not religious.”

Final verdict in the file of child traffickers in ??nd?rei: the 25 defendants were acquitted

The case of trafficking in children from ??nd?rei, which troubled Romania and the European Union in 2010, ended on Monday, after many delays, with a decision to acquit all the accused. The verdict was given by the Târgu Mure? Court of Appeal.

After more than nine years of delayed trials, the 25 people accused of trafficking nearly 200 children from ??nd?rei in the UK are free as the bird of the sky. Judge Daniel Ursulescu, from the Târgu Mure? Court of Appeal, ordered the acquittal under art. 16 paragraph 1 letter a of the Code of Criminal Procedure - "the deed did not exist". Moreover, the defendants will claim damages at the ECHR for the months in which they were under preventive arrest and for the costs of the court, said lawyer Lorena Maria Cretescu.

In February, all the defendants were acquitted at first instance, or the judges found that the facts were prescribed after the trial was delayed for 9 years, of which only 6 were in Harghita Court, where there were 53 terms. The story of ??nd?rei's case The case of ??nd?rei exploded in 2010, the images of masked men with rattlesnakes breaking through the doors of the palaces of T?nd?rei in search of child traffickers were broadcast by several international TV stations. It was the first case of trafficking in minors investigated by Romanian and English policemen, and the trafficking of 181 Roma children in the United Kingdom was investigated, where they were used for begging and theft.

"The recruitment of minors was carried out in the environment of the poor Roma communities, the members of the group dealing with their accommodation and transport, the procurement of travel documents and the necessary money, as well as the organization and supervision of criminal activity in the United Kingdom and the management of the money obtained from the exploitation. victims, "the prosecutors said. In England, 120 traffickers were arrested and arrested, while some of the 26 people arrested and charged were released after several months. In July 2010, the DIICOT prosecutors completed the investigations and "ordered the prosecution of 26 defendants, 18 of whom were in custody". Among the accusations: trafficking in minors, money laundering, setting up an organized criminal group and possession without firearms.

YEREVAN—The Investigative Committee of Armenia arrested three civil servants late last week in connection with the National Security Service’s (NSS) ongoing investigation into illegal international adoptions. Officials arrested Liana Karapetyan, the director of a Yerevan orphanage; Razmik Abrahamyan, the director of the Republican Maternity Hospital; and Arshak Jerjeryan, Abrahamyan’s deputy director at the hospital. Abrahamyan had also served as head Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Armenia for several years.

The three stand accused of conspiring with two unnamed individuals in an alleged scheme to illegally separate newborns from their parents and present them as orphans to international adoption agencies. The Investigative Committee has not disclosed the identity of a fourth conspirator implicated in the case. Data produced by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs reveals that 54 children were adopted overseas between 2016 and 2018, and authorities now suspect that at last 30 of those may have been cases of illegal international child trafficking.

Dr. Abrahamyan has been charged with two counts under the Armenian Criminal Code: Article 167 (illegal separation of the child from the parents or substitution of the child) and Article 200 (commercial bribe). The 76-year-old wasn’t placed under pre-trial detention despite a motion filed by the NSS. Yerevan Children’s Home Director Karapetyan, who was charged with Article 167 and Article 314 (official forgery), has since been released on bail after posting the three million AMD ($6,300) required. A third—unnamed—suspect also posted bail set at five million AMD ($10,450).

Substantial allegations of ongoing and organized illegal international orphan trafficking are not recent. A 2011 report by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) revealed cases of prospective adoptive parents using such agencies being asked to provide ‘gifts’ to the orphanage managers and other officials in thousands of dollars in cash payments in order for them to “hold on to” their prospective adoptive child. Hmayak Navasardian, head of an Armenian Justice Ministry department coordinating foreign adoption procedures at the time, admitted that such payments are considered illegal under Armenian law.

These cases closely resemble the testimonies of adoptive parents who recently spoke with the Armenian Weekly, which included one woman who described handing bags full of American dollars to a local handler in Armenia, as well as being ‘forced’ to sign forged documents for other American adoptive parents for ‘procedural’ reasons. “Naturally, if there is such a thing, it means not paying for [legal] services but paying bribes,” Navasardian told RFE/RL at the time.