At the beginning of December, seven Croatian citizens were arrested in Zambia, due to doubts about the validity of the documents for the adoption of minor children from the DR Congo. The investigation is still ongoing, and the Croatian institutions are transferring responsibility for the adoption process, Croatian reports. Index.

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The investigation involving several competent authorities will determine what really happened, whether someone forged Congolese documents or failed in the adoption process of Congolese children who received Croatian documents. Currently there are various theories about this and various information and misinformation is being spread.

On Wednesday, there was also a misunderstanding when the President of the Supreme Court of Croatia, Radovan Dobroni?, stated that the Croatian courts made a mistake and that the procedure on the basis of which Congolese children received Croatian documents was not valid, because Congo is a signatory to the Convention on the Protection of Children. therefore the procedure should be different.

But Dobronic later admitted that he had made a mistake and confused the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Namely, DR Congo is not a signatory to the Convention and the adoption procedure is under the jurisdiction of the courts, not the Ministry of Family and Social Policy.

Zambia: according to information from Zambian portals, among the 4 couples who were arrested at the beginning of the month, there is also an LGBTQ activist, DP, former co-president of the Trans Aid association, now the kolekTIRV association . She became known to the Croatian public for advocating transgenderism and presenting her personal "transition" to the male gender and changing her name to NP, and then to N.K.

The Zambian media published the names and surnames of all those detained and the children who were with them. Jutarnji list announced yesterday that the 52-year-old guitarist of Hladni piva is among those detained.

Eight Croats were arrested on December 6 and detained in Zambia, a country with 19 million inhabitants in southern Africa. They were arrested at Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport with four children aged between one and three. They were taken to the police station on the basis of a report, and because of the suspicion that they brought four children to Zambia from the Congo with falsified documents, writes Zambia News. The authorities there suspect trafficking in people, that is, children . The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the four married couples have been detained in Zambia for 16 days. They were visited by an employee of the Croatian consular office of the Croatian embassy in Pretoria.

Narod.hr sent an inquiry to the Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy about the couples detained in Zambia - whether they are registered as potential adoptive parents in the Republic of Croatia and about the validity of the child adoption procedure in accordance with the laws and the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia and international conventions. In a separate question, we asked for information about a possible procedure in Croatia for the couple NK and I.K, that is, two female persons, one of whom underwent the transition to the male gender and, according to some media, came to Zambia to adopt a child from the Congo. We will publish the Ministry's answers to these questions as soon as we receive them.

Zambia and the Congo: international adoption and the Convention

As we already wrote, four couples from Croatia were arrested in Zambia, and eight people have been in custody for more than three weeks on suspicion of human trafficking after they planned to adopt children from the Congo. One child is one year and three months old, and the other three are three years old, and it is suspected that those arrested had forged documents.

Guitarist of Cold beer and the town hall Mozemo

Among those arrested are 44-year-old Damir Magi? (44) and his wife Nadica Magi? (45), guitarist Hladni piva, Zoran Suboši? (52) and his wife Azra Imamovi? Suboši? (41), employee of the Constitutional Court, Zagreb veterinarian Ladislav Perši? (42). with her husband Aleksandra (40) and LGBTIQ activist and councilor Mozemo, who was born under the name Dalija Pintari? (45) and her partner Ivona (36), so the question arises why the media hide their identities, even though the Zambian media reported the police report with their full names and surnames. In fact, Jutarnji list initially published the names, but after someone intervened, it decided to hide them.

Dalija Pintari? was originally a lesbian, and then she decided to make the so-called "gender surgery" and "becoming a man", therefore she changed her name to Noah Pintari?, and then to Noah Kraljevi?. She could therefore be, after the first man in a women's prison, the first case of a woman in a men's prison.

Dalija Pintari? and Noah Kraljevi? were declared LGBTIQ person of the year

Zambia has been detaining 4 couples from Croatia for 3 weeks. They were detained from the airport on suspicion of trafficking children from the DR Congo. According to the Croatian Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy, two couples are registered in the Register of Adoptive Parents. The same Ministry answered the question of the Narod.hr portal that since 2014, 4 children have come to Croatia through international adoption. And the couples who have already adopted children from DR Congo claim that there are about 180 of them in Croatia. And that all the children were adopted on the basis of the same procedure that includes the courts.

Both in the Congo and in Croatia. Although DR Congo has had a suspension of international child adoption since 2016, as stated by the US Department of State in its Annual Report on International Adoption. Namely, by changing the Family Law on July 15, 2016, the DR Congo suspended the issuance of permits for children to leave the country for international adoption, thereby, as stated in the Report, preventing the legal adoption of children from the Congo. The Report also states that the representatives of the USA had a meeting with the representatives of the Congolese Ministry of Justice and that they asked them for explanations regarding the decisions on adoption which, despite this change in the Family Law, are made by the Congolese courts.

It is estimated that around 180 children from DR Congo were adopted in Croatia

The immigration authorities in Zambia have started following 4 Croatian couples with children from the Congo, because the DR Congo has been prohibiting the issuance of exit permits for children for international adoption for years. They joined the surveillance of Croatian citizens and carried out passport control at the airport of the Zambian city of Ndoli. From the same airport, in the province bordering DR Congo , in recent years, as confirmed by couples who adopted children from Congo, around 180 children have traveled with Croatian passports, Croatian names and surnames.

Adoption of Congolese children in Zambia

Eight (8) Croatian nationals have pleaded not guilty to the offence of attempted trafficking in four children of Congolese origin on the Zambian territory.

Appearing before Ndola Chief Resident Magistrate Dominic Makalicha on Tuesday morning, the four couples told the court that they understood the charge but were not guilty.

Particulars of the offence are that Damir Magic aged 44 and seven others on 7th December 2022 in Ndola on the Copperbelt Province jointly and whilst acting together did attempt to traffic a child namely Beatrice Magic within the territorial boundaries of Zambia for the purpose of exploitation.

The offence is contrary to section 3A (1) and 12 of Human Trafficking Act No.11 of 2008 as Amended by Act No.16 of 2022 of the laws of Zambia.

The Croatian suspects are Damir Magic aged 44, his wife Nadica Magic aged 45, Subosic Zoran aged 52, his wife Azra Imamovic Subosic aged 41, Ladislav Persic aged 42, his wife Aleksandr Persic aged 40, Noah Kraljevic aged 45 and his wife Ivona Kraljevic aged 36.

PIKE COUNTY (KMOV) -- A Missouri family claims the federal government mishandled and wrongly blocked their son’s adoption, and now they’re suing in what’s become an international adoption nightmare.

Jill and Adam Trower live in Pike County with their 9-year-old daughter. For more than four years ,they’ve been forced to watch through pictures and videos as Luke, the child they’re adopting, grows up in an orphanage thousands of miles away.

“It definitely feels like a betrayal for us, we have tried to do everything correct and it doesn’t matter,” Jill said.

The Trowers wanted to grow their family through adoption and started working with an international adoption agency. The family says in 2018 the agency connected them with Luke, an infant who was abandoned in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

“Luke was found when he was a few months old, he was just abandoned in a trash heap,” Jill explained.

A lawyer and an orphanage proprietress have been sentenced to three years each by the Accra Circuit Court, for deceiving a married couple, to release their one-year old child for adoption.

Additionally, the lawyer, David Opare Asiedu, and the proprietress, Elizabeth Arthur Adjei, alias Maa Lizy, were ordered by the court on Wednesday to pay GH¢12,000 and GH¢6,000 respectively as fines.

Elizabeth, was charged with defrauding by false pretence while Asiedu was charged with abetment.

This was after they had presented an electrician, Benjamin Kofi Okyere, with an opportunity to travel abroad, but ended up giving his one-year old son for adoption to a white man, at his blind side.

A driver, Prince Armah, also known as Paa Kwasi, son of Elizabeth, and an alleged accomplice is on the run.

They actually only wanted one daughter, but then they ended up with two...The Herrmann family reports on the adoption of their two daughters from Romania.

First encounter at 50 degrees in the sun

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"Aurelia hugged me right away and called me daddy," Peter Herrmann recalls when he first met his daughter. At that time it was more than 50 degrees hot under the blazing sun on the Black Sea. It was there that the Herrmann family met their adopted child for the first time . "Because time was short in Romania, we had to sign the declaration of consent for the adoption without having met Aurelia," says Aurelia's current father, Peter. "We had only seen a photo of her before."

A WITNESS has told the Ndola magistrate court that four couples who attempted to traffic four children from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had them checked into a guest house they were living in two days later.

Estelle Banda, a General Manager at Spree guest house in Ndola narrated to the court that the eight Croatians who were booked at the guest house did not have children when they booked, but that two days later, staff at the guest house found them all with African black children.

This is a matter in which eight people of Croatian descent are charged with suspected human trafficking and were arrested from Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport with children aged between one-year-six months and three years old.

When the matter came up for trial before chief resident Magistrate Dominic Makalicha, Ms Banda told court that after the four couples checked, it was discovered that each had a black child.

She told court that the couples stayed at the lodge for five days and when going to the Airport, they each had an African black child.

Two adopted girls will travel to the US, a boy to be with new family in Italy

Thane: The new year has brought blessings in the form of legal parents for 16 orphaned children from Thane. At an informal event on Tuesday, Thane District Collector Ashok Shingare handed over the children to their new families. Among these were 11 girls, with two of them finding parents in the US. Of the five boys, one will relocate to Italy.

Mr Shingare said, “As per the order of the Children Welfare Committee, orphaned, abandoned and neglected children are admitted to the Children of the Word India Trust in Nerul and Janani Ashish Charitable Trust in Dombivli. Prospective parents have to register themselves on the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) website and make an application to the District Collector.

Mr Shingare said that according to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, the Adoption Rules 2022 were framed. Also included in this are inter-relationship and step adoptions

The adoptions announced by Mr Shingare came before the Bombay Court stayed the amendment of the Act pertaining to transfer of jurisdiction to District Magistrates, who are officials of the rank of Collector. “As per the Act, the cases were heard to me,” he said during his speech.