Clara Chinwe Deborah Ogo, an 83-year-old woman and founder of the renowned Arrow of God Orphanage in Anambra State, has been remanded at a Correctional Centre in Onitsha, Anambra.

She was remanded after The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) arraigned her at the Federal High Court, Awka Judicial Division, for alleged buying and selling of human beings.

Ogo, a retired Nigerian Army Lt. Col, and a nurse, owns the orphanage located at Nkwelle-Ezunaka, Oyi L.G.A., Anambra State, with branches in Lagos State.

The Arrow of God Orphanage came under scrutiny in 2023 after Fisayo Soyombo, an investigative journalist exposed alleged illicit activities related to illegal adoption and sales of babies linked to the orphanage.

Soyombo bought a baby from Ogo for N2 million in July 2023, after 19 months of intense work to crack the investigation.

Soon-Yi Previn was 21 years old when she first shared a kiss with filmmaker Woody Allen, who was then 56 and the long-time boyfriend of Soon-Yi's adoptive mother, Mia Farrow.

When Soon-Yi Previn recounts how she met her husband, she tells the story like any happy wife might. They came together for a movie one night. A passionate discussion turned into a passionate kiss. Soon-Yi was a “goner” and quickly fell in love. But her relationship with her husband, the director Woody Allen and the ex-boyfriend of her adoptive mother, Mia Farrow, would be anything but simple.

Soon after Farrow found out about the relationship — infamously by finding nude photos of Soon-Yi at Allen’s place — their family was torn apart. Soon-Yi claims that Farrow threw her out of their apartment and told a friend that Allen was “satanic.” Worst of all, allegations that Allen had sexually abused the young daughter he had adopted with Farrow came to light.

In the years since, Allen’s oeuvre of films has been put under scrutiny. He’s been “canceled.” Documentaries have come out examining the allegations against him, and his daughter Dylan has unfalteringly maintained that he inappropriately touched her when she was just seven years old.

In all this, Soon-Yi’s story is often skimmed over. In some tellings, she’s a victim. In others, she’s akin to a homewrecker. So, who is she?

Parents kill adopted daughter over ‘property disputes’, accused remanded to judicial custody

Police detected the case and arrested the couple, and they were produced in the court on June 9, the offence occurred on June 6

In a gruesome murder case, a nine-year-old girl, Puchakayala Venkata Sanvy Reddy, was allegedly killed by the parents who adopted her, P. Lakshmi Padmavathi and her husband, Venkata Ramana Reddy, over ‘property disputes’ in Ardhaveedu village of Prakasam district.

Police detected the case and arrested the couple, and they were produced in the court, which remanded them to judicial custody on June 9 (Sunday). The offence occurred in their house at Kummaraveedhi in the village on June 6.

Julienne Mpemba, a Belgian-Congolese from Namur, is suspected of fraud in the adoption of Congolese children. Belgian families find themselves with a child who could have been stolen. Seven years after the opening of the case, it will be pleaded.
 

It is an old case but above all very emotionally heavy which will soon be pleaded before the Namur criminal court. Julienne Mpemba, a Belgian-Congolese from Namur, has been suspected since 2017 of adoption fraud, human trafficking, kidnapping of minors, hostage taking, fraud, corruption, forgery and use of forgeries.

Let's go back a few years. In 2017, the federal prosecutor's office discovered that the children, who arrived in Belgium in 2014, had been kidnapped. Other identities and dates of birth were allegedly given to them even though they were not intended for adoption.

At the time, reporters from the newspaper “Het Laatste Nieuws” even went looking for the biological parents. They had found them. They explained that they had the opportunity to send their children to camp through a youth organization. But the little ones never came back. These parents had no money to pay a lawyer. They had also been abandoned by the local authorities.

Fliss and Memet Demir are travelling to the Ukrainian capital, where a surrogate mother is due to deliver the child

They have been warned not to make the trip from their home in Cambridgeshire

Friday June 07 2024, 11.30pm, The Times

Like any expectant mother with a baby due in a few weeks, Fliss Demir is packing sleepsuits, nappies, infant formula and wipes.

But her excitement and trepidation are tempered by fear, for Demir and her husband, Memet, are travelling to war-torn Ukraine to pick up their surrogate infant.

KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday arrested human rights activist and philanthropist Sarim Burney when he arrived at Karachi airport from abroad for his alleged involvement in “child trafficking by way of illegal adoption” on the complaint of US authorities.

An FIA official said that the Anti-Human Trafficking Cell (AHTC) of the FIA-Karachi registered a case (FIR No. 126/2024) against Mr Burney under Sections 420 (Cheating and dishonestly, inducing delivery of property), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (Using as genuine a forged document), 109 (abetment) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Sections 3 (trafficking in persons), 4 (aggravating circumstances) and 5 (abetment and criminal conspiracy) of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act, 2018.

According to the FIR, “Sarim Burney and his associates Basalat Ali Khan, Humaira Naz and others, in collusion with each other knowingly and wilfully gave false information, made misdeclaration as well as concealment of the facts before the Hon’ble Family Courts District East Karachi in the garb of illegal adoption/guardianship of three baby girls by using and providing fraudulent documents.”

It stated that the statement by the suspects that “the three baby girls in question were orphans and found from outside the gate of M/s Sarim Burney Trust and it tried level best to find their parents but no person came forward for claiming them” was contrary to the facts.

The FIA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the US Consulate General had stated in its complaint that during the last one and half years, around 17-18 children had been adopted in the US but the adoption process was ‘illegal’.

There will be a stop to adoptions from Peru, South Africa, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

The reason is that Bufdir cannot be sure that the adoptions from these countries are carried out in a legal, ethical and sound manner.

Sir Rod Stewart looked every inch the proud father in a sweet Instagram snap with his large blended family as he celebrated the wedding of his hockey player son Liam in Croatia.

Joined by six of his eight children, wife Penny Lancaster and ex Rachel Hunter, who is Liam's mother, the 79-year-old singer couldn't keep the smile from his face as he posed with his clan on the steps of the church of Jesuits in the Old Town.

Sir Rod shares eight children with five mothers. He is a father to four daughters Sarah, 60, Kimberly, 44, Ruby, 36, and Renee, 32 and four sons, Sean, 43, Liam, 29, Alastair Wallace, 18, and Aiden Patrick, 13.

Remarkably, he regularly proves he is the friendliest of exes with Alana Stewart, Kelly Emberg and Rachel Hunter, having previously posed with his wife Penny, 53, and the mothers of seven of his children in 2019 at daughter Kimberly's 40th birthday party.

The rocker's paternal adventures began at the age of 17, and his youngest was born nearly half a century later, when he was 66. Along the way there has been three wives, one long-term girlfriend and a teenage fling.

Dutch funding Defence for Children DCI

150 Kaandorp and Meuwese, 1996, p. 121. The exact amount of money granted to DCI was probably somewhere between 25.000 and 50.000 Dutch guilders. In the request from the Permanent Representative to the Ministry, 50.000 guilders were asked for, but Nigel Cantwell and Jaap Doek recall a subsidy of about 25.000 guilders. See: Copy of a memorandum from the Social and Environmental Affairs Section to the Director-General International Cooperation through the Legal and Social Affairs Division, the Secretary of the International Organisations Department and the Policy Planning Section and the Advisory Council Secretariat of the International Cooperation Division, 13 June 1980, Archive MFA, VN 1975-1984, 999.232.154, file 1328; Interview with Cantwell, 30 November 2003; Interview with Doek, 28 October 2003.

On 27 October 2011 at 15:14, Arun Dohle <arun.dohle@gmx.de> wrote:
 

Funding ‘Stan Meuwese took over the chairmanship of the DCI-Netherlands board in 1988. He was working for the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports at the time and had experience in youth policy and juvenile justice. In 1991 the ministry was reorganising and gave him the opportunity to work full time for DCI-Netherlands. As of January 1992, he became the Executive Director of DCI-Netherlands. He stayed on until 2007. He was the first paid employee. In that way, the Dutch government, through the Ministry of Health, greatly contributed to the development of DCI-Netherlands. The subsidy of the Dutch ministry stopped in 1995 and the organisation had to look for other funds. It has been quite successful at that. DCI-Netherlands has grown slowly but steadily, with approximately one new paid employee per year over the last fifteen years.’
 

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