Ahmedabad: In November 2019, city police found a child abandoned on the streets. Two-and-a-half years later, he got the love of parents with a couple from Malta adopting him. The adoption ceremony of Sagar, christened ‘Jack’ by his parents, was held at the Shishu Gruh in Paldi on Saturday.

Some of those at the event were Pradip Parmar, state social justice and empowerment minister, Jagruti Pandya, chairperson of the Commission for Protection of Child Rights, and R S Patel, secretary of Sardar Patel Memorial.

Speaking to TOI, the emotional parents said this was a dream come true for them. The couple – Canmelo and Chanlene Abdilla, a businessman and teacher, respectively – were waiting for the adoption process to end for nearly two years. “It was the experience of some of our relatives that motivated us to adopt a child from India. We were in touch with the authorities and were talking to Jack regularly through video calls,” said Chanlene. “We have prepared a special room for him and have also started preparations for his admission in the September intake.”

Ritesh Dave, superintendent of Shishu Gruh, said the child had hearing issues, which were treated during his stay at the facility. “This is our fourth international adoption this year. We get 35-odd children every year of whom the majority get adopted,” he said.

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Two days ago I posted about an adoption interview/debate on Al Jazeera’s English network. This post is about the second half of that interview with Tom DiFilipo, President and CEO of the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS), and Louise Melville, a Care and Protection Adviser for Save The Children.

You can watch the clip of the 2nd half of the interview below, and (if you’re interested) you can read my commentary below the interview. If you cannot see the interview below, you can go to the interview on YouTube.

Part 2:

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The English wing of the Arab news network Al Jazeera produced a piece last month about international adoption on their “Inside Story” program: “Guatemala Adoption Scandal” aired on 13 August 2007. The program featured two interviewees who went head-to-head on inter-country adoption: Tom DiFilipo, President and CEO of the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS), and Louise Melville, a Care and Protection Adviser for Save The Children.

This piece came to my attention not because I’m a regular Al Jazeera watcher, but because Carolina Hope is a member of JCICS, which advocates for international children’s welfare and supports international adoption as a legitimate option for providing permanency to children in need of homes.

I’m dividing this topic into two posts because the television program is available on the internet in 2 segments (and I only have time to blog about one of those today!) You can watch the first clip below, and (if you’re interested) you can read my commentary below the interview. If you cannot see the interview below, you can go to the interview on YouTube.

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Document-BOMB! Are they taking us out of the EU? Krichbaum asks Timmermans to trigger the "NUCLEAR OPTION" against Romania because of the Kovesi File!

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THE HAGUE - Council member Sebastian Kruis of the Hague PVV is happy that his personal adoption file is correct. Last year he met his biological mother in Colombia. This was preceded by a considerable period of doubt, Sebastian told the Vrijmibo program on Den Haag FM.

'Misconduct with international adoptions forced me to check whether my own file was correct,' says Sebastian. 'Because I said that in the media at the time, it was also a big stick for me personally to actually do it. Very often people asked about it because they had read that interview in AD Haagsche Courant earlier this year. And sometimes I tend to put personal matters on the back burner. Because of that interview I had made my wish an obligation: that it finally had to happen for me this year.'

Earlier this year, Sebastian went to Colombia: 'I went there in April to check whether it was correct. And then I met my mother within a week. She knew essential personal things about me, which was very special. It actually went so fast that I didn't feel like I had time to think about it. It happened to me and that suits me too. But it is a special story and I am also happy that the file is correct. She left me in the hospital after two days. She knew where I was born, she knew my name and how old I was.

"Parents too often in suspect's bench"

Sebastian thinks that people often think too negatively about adoption: 'The most important lesson is that adoption is not always wrong. She lived on the street in Medellin and was a drug addict for 40 years, just like my father. Growing up on the street in such a situation is not a good situation. And that is why international adoption is often just a real solution. And of course: other countries are also developing, so the numbers of children are smaller. But it was nice at the time that people wanted to adopt children who would not get it right in their own country. I sometimes have the idea that parents are sometimes placed in the suspect's bench.'

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This is Part 4 of a four-part investigative series.

Part 1 laid out the horrifying facts of the child-prostitution case, Part 2 explored the LGBTQ pedophile ring's reach, and Part 3 shined a spotlight on the state's failure to protect the two little boys from suffering through serial sexual abuse allegedly committed by their gay activist fathers, who became their adoptive parents thanks to Georgia's courts and child-welfare system.

Today's fourth and final piece details what life is like in jail for these two alleged child rapists each facing over nine life sentences.

Life Behind Bars

Since they're being prosecuted as co-defendants, the adoptive fathers are housed separately while in pre-trial detainment.

This is Part 3 of a four-part investigative series. Read Part 1 and Part 2.

There were more than just warning signs that went unnoticed during gay activists William Dale Zulock Jr. and Zachary "Zack" Jacoby Zulock's expedited adoption process. A little over four years later, the adoptive fathers of two are now facing a laundry list of charges for unspeakable sex crimes they allegedly committed against their young adopted sons, including rape, producing child pornography of the children's "routine" sexual abuse, and prostituting their 11-year-old boy to pedophiles in the area.

In the latest installment of the Zulock horror story, we're exposing everything we learned about the faith-based special-needs adoption agency that the same-sex couple used to adopt the two boys; the role that Georgia's child-welfare system played in placing the children, who are back in foster care, in an abusive household; and the lack of accountability across the board.

We're naming names.

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