Arun Dohle

Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 3:06 PM

I did call his office too. But his assistant didn´t know.

Strange.

For the first time, we are hearing from some of the pregnant Marshallese women who are part of a far-reaching adoption fraud scheme allegedly run by Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen.

Seven Marshallese mothers and their multiple young children, crammed into two east valley apartments. They're pregnant and alone, caught in the middle of an international adoption scandal.

"After the incident took place they're wondering how are they going to be fed, and get all the other needs," said the women through a translator.

With the help of a local pastor who translated their words, the women expressed the abandonment they feel after Paul Petersen's promises amounted to lies.

"They were promised that it would be an open adoption, until they're children are 18, that their kids will come here and grow up in the United States and be able to provide for their families back home," said the women.Words that couldn't be further from the truth. As roaches crawl across the floor, the women talk about running out of food and money. Their thoughts constantly returning to their unborn children.

"Everything I knew about myself turned out to be wrong"

Earlier it became clear that children from Bangladesh were often offered for adoption without the knowledge of their parents. Now it appears that brothers and sisters were regularly divorced and ended up with different families.

Esther Korse (41) has never had any doubts about her adoption. As a Bengali girl of one and a half years she ends up in a Dutch family. Until recently, she considered her adoption purely as something beautiful. "I got a second chance. After arriving in the Netherlands I had to go straight to the hospital, I was so sick. I felt like a saved child."

Korse grows up carefree in Oudenbosch in Brabant. She has never had a need to look for her family. Moreover, she was convinced that searching made no sense. "In my adoption papers it says that my father was dead and my mother got seriously disabled in a car accident. I think he died too."

A few months ago, 'Nieuwsuur' and this newspaper, which has been widely cheated with the adoptions from Bangladesh, were revealed. Children were regularly taken away from their parents under false pretenses. Esther Korse accepted the news for notification. This wasn't about her. "It did not fit my image of adoption."

From WOB/AVG

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The set of recommendations, reviewed by HT, moot changes in the 1956 Hindu and Guardianship Act and asks that mothers be considered the default legal guardian in cases where the woman has been deserted by the husband or divorced.

The National Commission for Women has recommended to the Union ministry of women and child development a review of the Indian child guardianship laws in order to ensure that women, especially rape survivors and single mothers, are not discriminated against, HT has learnt.

The set of recommendations, reviewed by HT, moot changes in the 1956 Hindu and Guardianship Act and asks that mothers be considered the default legal guardian in cases where the woman has been deserted by the husband or divorced.

The quasi-judicial body also recommended that while rape survivors are automatically considered the legal guardian of any children born after the crime, the father should share parenting responsibilities.

Currently, if a child is born of wedded parents, the father is considered the natural guardian and if the child is born out of wedlock, the mother is seen to the natural guardian. But the NCW has recommended the mother should be declared natural guardian in conventional cases. In the case of children born out of wedlock, the body recommended that the law make the father equally responsible for the child’s upbringing.

There are already two investigations into child protection procedures in Pest County, because two children were separated from their foster parents.

OCTOBER 11, 2019 05:55 - AUTHOR: BÍRÓ VERONIKA

Two children were also separated from their foster parents with immediate highlighting without prior care. The director of PM Tegyesz resigned, but the children still could not return to their usual environment.

Two investigations have already been launched at the Budapest Police Headquarters due to the proceedings of the Pest County Child Protection Center and the Regional Child Protection Service (PM Tegyesz) - the 168 Hours found out.

The director of the specialist service resigned after investigations were launched due to several questionable procedures of the PM Do. The Index wrote recently that Perei Lilla leave the director's chair. To the portal's interest, the Directorate-General for Social Affairs and Child Protection, which supervises Tegyesz, replied that Lilla Perei's civil service would end on 30 November 2019 with resignation. It is also about the Indexreported that the departure may be related to the case where, following a decision by the PM Do, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl was torn from her foster parents and adopted over one morning. The Pest County Prosecutor's Office is conducting a legality check in the case, which forwarded the documents to the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Department of the Budapest Police Headquarters.

Roelie Post

Fri, 11 Oct 2019, 18:58

to Bjoern.SEIBERT

Dear Mr. Seibert,

Up to today I did not receive an acknowledgment of receipt.

MADURAI: A lady doctor, charged with illegally selling a child born at her clinic, will not face criminal trial now, as Madras high

court (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/madras-high-court) has spared her of the ‘ordeal of trial’ citing four-year delay in

the complaint by the child’s biological mother.

Since a new mother, J Selva Rani, could not pay delivery charges of Rs 18,000 to the hospital in Dindigul district

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Dindigul-district), she had to leave the new-born behind at the hospital to arrange for

The number of children with special needs, available for adoption, on the other hand, has been growing steadily.

NEW DELHI: There are just 75 children under two years who are healthy—the most sought after category — available for adoption in India legally.

This effectively means just one “wanted” child per 346 parents in waiting, as there are nearly 26,000 registered prospective adoptive parents in India.

The data maintained by the Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System, under the Union Women and Child Development Ministry, shows that out of 2,290 children, available for adoption in India in September, just 3 per cent are healthy.

In comparison, the number of such children was 11 per cent in June 2018.