On October 5, 2022, the Racines&dignité group filed complaints with the public prosecutor for the opening of a judicial inquiry into the main actors who participated in our forced exodus without the consent of our biological families. We publish the letter addressed to Mrs BECCUAU so that our request is taken into account vis-a-vis these crimes against humanity.

For the attention of Mrs Laure BECCUAU, Public Prosecutor of Paris

Madam Prosecutor,

We have the honor to inform you that we are a group of victims born in Romania in the 1960s. We created the Roots&Dignity group in order to denounce the establishment of a trade in children and violations of human rights. child of which we have been the object.

We are :

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Bill, providing for the adoption of both boys and girls, was approved by the Lok Sabha on Friday.

Mr N. C. Chatterjee (Hindu Mahasabha) called the Bill a communal one. “ It is wrong for a secular State to single out Hindus alone for this kind of legislation.” he said.

Adoption of girls was something unheard of in Hindu society from the days of the Vedas. The Bill defied the directive principles of the Constitution.

The chapter on maintenance was capable of more than one interpretation. Lawyers had already pointed out that some of the provisions could not be enforced.

Mrs Sushama Sen (Cong.-Bihar) did not agree with Mr Chatterjee that the Bill violated the Constitution On the contrary, she said, it sought to implement the provision conferring equal right to men and women. She congratulated the Minister on giving Hindu women their rightful place in society.

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March 25, 2004

Rally for Intercountry Adoption

{posted with the permission of Hannah Wallace}

There is a very important rally being held in Washington, D.C. on Monday and Tuesday, March 29 and 30, on behalf of the children of Romania, whose opportunity to be adopted may be permanently denied. While Romania and Guatemala are worlds apart, the insidious influences of the E.U. anti intercountry adoption proponents, along with the misguided principles of UNICEF, is affecting every country of world, and is condemning many children from Third World Countries to death, or lives without hope.

I urge everyone who cares about preservation of adoption opportunities for children to TRY to attend these two rallies. Details and contact information is below,

As the European Union has expanded eastward, hundreds of thousands of children have been turned into orphans in all but name. They grow up without their parents, who have no choice but to work in rich, Western European countries for a lack of job options back home.

Nicoleta's mother is happy to see her daughter. "How did math go?" she asks. "Good," her daughter responds. "I'm going to tutoring again later. The teacher said he'll pick me up. Have you cooked anything?" "No, but I'm about to make something to eat," the mother says.

Nicoleta stares at the screen of her smartphone. The two of them are separated by 2,500 kilometers (1,553 miles). They're talking over WhatsApp. Ileana Tanase, 37, is calling from London. The 14-year-old Nicoleta is sitting on her bed in her room in Scarisoara, a small town in the county of Bacau in eastern Romania.

They talk for a few minutes about school, food, work and the weather. In the next room, Nicoleta's younger brother Andrei is playing a game on his phone. The 11-year-old doesn't like to talk on the phone; he's a bit introverted. "Kisses," Nicoleta's mother says. "Give Andrei and grandma and grandpa a kiss for me." "I will. Bye, mommy;" the daughter days. Then they both hang up.

Daily conversations over WhatsApp, rarely longer than a few minutes. That's been Ileana Tanase's relationship with both of her children for the past three years. A relationship held together by shaky videos and hastily typed messages punctuated with emojis. It's the digital simulation of a normal life.

Promise Kids a Future (PKAF), a local adoption agency, is working with their orphanage in Africa called Noah’s Ark Children’s Home, to raise funds for adoption.

Their “Hope for the Future” campaign has raised roughly $8,500 at press time with a goal of $18,000 by Dec. 20.

“For the last several years we have had an anonymous donor who has reached out to say that they would give a certain amount if we could match it by the end of the year,” said Promise Kids a Future Director Jill Baker. “This (deadline) we set as Dec. 20.”

PKAF was started in 2006 by Baker, who has had a heart for international adoption.

“It’s just a beautiful thing to be able to provide (adoption) for people,” Baker said. “I love the idea of joining people who want children that don’t have families. As much as it is one way, it is the other; a child that needs a family. And, there (are) families that need children.”

G.S. Kulkarni, J.:— This is a foreign adoption petition wherein the petitioner, Bal Asha Trust, Bal Asha Dham, Anand Niketan, Dr. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai-400011, a recognized adoption agency alongwith the co-petitioners Mr. Fabil Maria Parodi and his wife Mrs. Elena Nerozzi, both of whom are Italian nationals having their address at Corso Roma 9-15121 Alessandria (AL), Italy, are before the court praying that male minor “Yuvraj” born on 15 July 2012 be granted in adoption to the proposed adopters.

2. Minor Yuvraj was admitted in Additional Observation Home, Mankhurd on 26 July 2017 and thereafter on the same day as per the Safe Custody Memo issued by Child Welfare Committee, Mumbai City-I, (for short ‘CWC) as per the provisions of Section 36(1) of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 was transferred to the petitioner.

3. Thereafter, on an inquiry as undertaken as per Section 38 of the Juvenile Justice Act by an order dated 10 April 2019, the CWC declared minor Yuvraj legally free for adoption. A certificate to that effect is placed on record. The proposal for adoption in question by the adoptive parents was also considered by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), New Delhi by issuing a No Objection Certificate dated 13 September 2019 to this adoption as per Adoption Regulation 2017 and Article 17(c) of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and cooperation in respect of Inter-Country Adoption 1993.

4. Insofar as the adoptive parents are concerned, they are Italian nationals residing at address noted above. They have been married for past 16 years (Date of Marriage 18 May 2003) with no biological children. The adoptive parents have however, already adopted two sons aged 15 years and 11 years from Italy and China respectively. The citizenship certificates of the adoptive parents, consent letters and health reports are placed on record, also a family photograph and passport copies of the adoptive parents are also placed on record.

5. Insofar as the health of the adoptive parents is concerned, a report dated 10 September 2019 records that both the adoptive parents enjoy good physical and mental health and are not affected by any psycho-physical pathology and as a result both of them are healthy with a strong constitution.

33 years of democracy have not completely changed social services in Romania. An example of incredible aggression against a minor confirms this. An employee of the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection in Bucharest revealed to Euronews Romania an abuse of a child with special needs from the Harap Alb Center in Bucharest.

A 16-year-old boy who suffers from autism was allegedly washed with the hose by the caretakers at the day care center. The aggression took place in the courtyard of the center in the summer of this year. The reason: he couldn't get to the toilet anymore and peed on himself. The Harap Alb Center in Sector 4 of the Capital is intended for children with disabilities. An employee of the Social Assistance Directorate revealed to us, under the protection of anonymity, the terrible event.

Anonymous source: "He was taken out into the courtyard of the center with other children and was hosed down by staff, and later the child was apparently placed on a hot surface because he had suffered burns on his soles, burns which were investigated by Institute of Forensic Medicine and we could see some burns of high intensity because the child, I understand, was not able to walk".

The boy ended up in a wheelchair due to burns on his soles

At the time the boy was examined, he was in a wheelchair due to burns on his legs. The doctors recommended 30 days of medical care. After the abuse occurred, the Department of Child Protection was notified. The City Hall of Sector 4 says that an internal investigation was launched, during which the two caregivers were no longer at the center.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/adoptionsberaterin-melanie-kleintz-lebenslange-suche-nach-den-wurzeln-dlf-kultur-ccbcd86c-100.html

Melanie Kleintz was adopted from Peru as a small child in 1980 – illegally. She does not like to think back to her childhood in Germany. What she was missing: love. She found it when she later met her birth family. Today Melanie Kleintz is an adoption counselor.

The Afghan woman ran down the street towards her friend’s apartment as soon as she heard the news: the White House had publicly weighed in on her family’s case.

Surely her child, who she says was abducted by a U.S. Marine more than a year ago, would now be returned, she thought. She was so excited that it was only after she’d arrived that she realized she wasn’t wearing any shoes.

“We thought within one week she’d be back to us,” the woman told The Associated Press.

Yet two months after an AP report on the high-stakes legal fight over the child raised alarms at the highest levels of government, from the White House to the Taliban, the baby remains with U.S. Marine Corps Major Joshua Mast and his family. The Masts claim in court documents that they legally adopted the child and that the Afghan couple’s accusations are “outrageous” and “unmerited.”

“We are all concerned with the well being of this child who is at the heart of this matter,” said White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after the AP detailed the child’s plight in October.