For the past two days, an interview with Julienne Mpemba has been circulating in the national media space. The aforementioned presents itself as the victim of a monumental instrumentalization. Outraged by this media outlet, Dieu-Merci Kitambo, co-founder of the NGO “Planète Junior – Les Amis de la Paix” came to our editorial office to give a completely different version of the facts.

ABCOMMUNICATION: Hello sir and can you tell us a bit about yourself?

GOD – THANK YOU KITAMBO: My name is Dieu-Merci Kitambo, I am the co-founder of the NGO “Planète Junior – Les Amis de la Paix. »

ABC: How do you know Ms. Julienne Mpemba?

DMK: Mrs. Julienne Mpemba, I know her, since she is the director of the Tumaïni Orphanage, which is here in Kinshasa. She is Congolese naturalized Belgian, for the moment she is in Belgium

It is with great disappointment that the NAS and ANW have taken note of the decision of the Minister of Justice and Security not to award the establishment of the new CBO for intercountry adoption to our initiative.

As new organizations, founded after the entry into force in 1998 of the Hague Adoption Convention in the Netherlands, ANW and the NAS represent the innovators in the adoption field. Unimpeded by the ballast from the period investigated by the Joustra Commission, we have been the pioneers and drivers of changes that have served the interests of children, based on our positively critical work attitude. In no way can our organizations be linked to the abuses of the last century. We regret that with our passion and high ethical standards we did not get the chance to establish the CBO. The minister awards the CBO to Wereldkinderen, a respected colleague but also part of the situations from the last century that prompted a review of the system.

With pain in our hearts we accept the decision regarding the CBO, especially because there is a fundamental difference of opinion with regard to the future of adoption and its importance for children. In the ANW and NAS plan, we stated that adoption should be maintained as an international child protection measure, regardless of where your cradle was. We believe that there are parents in the Netherlands now and in the future who can and want to play a role in providing a permanent family for children who cannot or are not allowed to grow up with their biological parents. In addition, in line with the Hague Convention, we believe that appropriate care does not mean that you grow up in a home or a system or in ever-changing foster care situations. The minister clearly makes different choices in this respect,

The minister has also made a choice for the countries with which cooperation will continue in the future and countries which will be divested. At the moment there are still active collaborations with 17 countries and children from all countries that meet the principles of the Hague Adoption Convention can be helped, provided that suitable parents are available. That will change drastically.

The US, Haiti, Peru, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are being phased out from the NAS and ANW's range of countries. Ongoing files in these countries may be processed, except in Haiti. This has to do with the security situation in the country. It is still allowed to adopt from our partner countries South Africa, Hungary and Lesotho. Whether the cooperation with Portugal (NAS) and Bulgaria (ANW) will be continued will be further assessed by the ministry. The other countries with which the Netherlands wants to maintain the adoption relationship are Thailand, the Philippines and Taiwan.

Marie Claire, a "royal" orphan.

According to Black Hair Styles/Care Home Black Hair Styles/Care Homemr. Carry Hamburger van Knoops & Partners [the legal source] is said to be 'Maria Jacoba Roovers', who according to the Registry Office of the municipality of Ginneken was born on March 11, 1927, is an 'illegitimate' daughter of Princess Juliana, who moved to the palace at the beginning of February 1926. Noordeinde in The Hague was fathered by her own father, Prince Hendrik, the husband of Queen Wilhelmina. Her official first names are 'Maria Jacoba'. Since 1959, when her search for her biological parents took shape, she started calling herself 'Marie Claire' and that wish to change her first names will be expressed in this research. Marie Claire died on October 3, 1997 in the St.Anna hospital in Geldrop and, as she had indicated in her last will, was cremated in Heeze.

The legal source January 2009

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The name 'Maria Jacoba Roovers' [1927] is linked to the Valkenhorst judgment of the Supreme Court [15 April 1994] concerning the right to inspect the archives of the foundation Valkenhorst vh. Stichting Moederheil in Breda to find out who her biological parents were. According to the source, just before her death in 1997, she received a confidential letter from a member of the Supreme Court. So far, no indications have been found that Marie Claire actually received the letter from the Supreme Court. However, it can be read in documents that Marie Claire's first will of October 1996 was drawn up, including the establishment and statutes of the foundation "Marie Louise Julia" and the wishes regarding the burial in Ulvenhout, municipality of Nieuw Ginneken. Given Marie Claire's state of health, this foundation had to become, after her death, the legal successor in the legal proceedings in the dispute of state. In that state dispute, Marie Claire demanded 7 million guilders from the State of the Netherlands. A striking fact is that in January 1997 Marie Claire was forced by her lawyer to engage another civil-law notary to set up the foundation. However, that foundation was already registered with the Chamber of Commerce in Utrecht under number 265667 and would be transferred to Eindhoven in the summer of 1997. The new notary, accompanied by two witnesses, appeared at her bedside on September 30 in connection with the will and the foundation. So that signing took place three days before Marie Claire's death anniversary. The content of the second and last will is only known that, according to the civil-law notary, legal succession has been arranged in it. It is assumed that cremation instead of burial was also mentioned therein.

Adoption law

In 1956 the Adoption Act came into effect in the Netherlands. This law has legalized adoption as a legal child protection measure. With adoption, the legal parentage of a child is transferred to the intended parents. The legal bond with the biological parents is completely broken in the Netherlands by adoption.

Hague Adoption Convention

In 1995, the Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in the Field of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention) entered into force between 66 countries. The agreements made are aimed at ensuring that the adoption procedure takes place as carefully as possible. The interests and rights of the child are central. Mediation by questionable persons or organisations, child trafficking and the pursuit of profit must thus be excluded.

The countries that are affiliated to the Hague Adoption Convention follow the same procedure for adoption and have made agreements with adoption mediators (in the Netherlands these are the permit holders ). The affiliated countries may apply different requirements and conditions. For example, about the possibility of adoption by one person or by a homosexual couple. While the treaty allows for these adoptions, not every country is required to allow them.

"I don't want any more contact with you!" her adoptive mother announced coldly and succinctly. "In retrospect, that break is the best thing that happened to me," says Myranda Hilhorst (52) from Hooglanderveen now. She describes her experiences as an adopted child in her book Wees.

Ex-Strongsville adoption agency employee sentenced for schemes to bribe Ugandan judges, lying to adopt Polish girl, who was raped

CLEVELAND, Ohio— A former employee of a defunct Strongsville adoptions agency was sentenced Friday to one year and one day in prison for two adoptions schemes that included bribing Ugandan officials and lying to Polish authorities about the adoption of a girl, who was later raped.

U.S. District Judge James Gwin sentenced Debra Parris, 70, to below the recommended sentence of about three years. He said he would have sentenced her to a longer prison term for her “terrible conduct” if it wasn’t for her serious healthcare needs.

“The amount of damage you’ve done to these children is horrendous,” Gwin said. “You’ve caused immeasurable psychological damage to these children and parents.”

Gwin also ordered Parris to pay a $10,000 fine and $118,197 in restitution to 42 families. He allowed her to self-report to prison by Jan. 9, unless the Bureau of Prisons directs her otherwise.

Long before Wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange became the planet’s most hunted man for releasing hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic documents, he published a eerily prescient exposé on Masha Allen entitled One Child’s Unending Abuse – From Disney World Girl to Drifter

In March 2008, Assange and business reporter Christopher Witkowsky, released what would become journalism’s epitaph on what had been an international story influencing everyone from Senator John Kerry to Oprah to President Putin.

Masha’s rapid ascent to worldwide fame in 2005 and 2006 was followed by an equally quick descent into oblivion. Assange and Witkowsky were the first and only media to explain Masha’s tragic unwinding.

Once the political darling of both the right and the left (the 2006 Republican controlled House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has long-featured Masha Allen on its now-archived web page and Senator John Kerry spoke about his work on Masha’s Law as recently as last year), by 2008 almost no one cared or remembered anything about her shocking story.

Despite several abortive efforts by ABC News to uncover the truth about Masha’s situation, and a short-lived law enforcement investigation initiated by Senator Johnny Isakson in late 2007, no one from either the political or media establishments had the time or interest to uncover the uncomfortable truth behind Masha’s downfall.

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Mirjam (49) found her biological family in Chile after a long search. But thirteen years later, a DNA test shows that she is linked to the wrong family. “It turned out that nothing was known about me, there was really nowhere to find a line to the family to which the nun had linked me.”

“When I got the results from MyHeritage a year and a half ago on Good Friday, I was transfixed. Surely it couldn't be true that the siblings I'd found after a long search wouldn't be biologically related?

After a night of lying awake, I called MyHeritage. "Can you check again if this is correct?" I asked them. The lady on the line was very sorry, but had to disappoint me. "There's really no match," she said. "These people you did the DNA test with aren't biological relatives." I got into bed and pulled the covers over my head. I could only cry, from the bottom of my soul.

Twice my identity had been taken from me. The first time when I was illegally adopted from Chile. The second time by a Dutch nun I had engaged to find my biological family.”

Huge shock

Christine Burke vividly remembers the day she arrived at the Elim Maternity Hospital, run by the Salvation Army, as an unmarried pregnant 17-year-old.

Key points:

Christine Burke had to sign over her daughter for adoption in 1968

Nearly 18 years later she was reunited with her eldest daughter

States are being urged to follow Victoria's lead and introduce a redress scheme for people involved in forced adoptions