Arrest of one of the most influential men in Spain, the communicator and consultant Nacho Jacob (his real name is Ignacio de Jacob y Gomez), 41, called "The Count of the Sweet Wells" (Conde de Pozos Dulzes) royalist and affirmed and assumed Catholic. He was caught red-handed in a room at the Nelva Hotel in Murcia, on July 19, 2022. Other sources inform that he was caught in the hotel parking lot. The police have already managed to identify 3 other victims and are looking for others whom the police presume are numerous.

He is a partner of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation and collaborator of “Nuevo Futuro” and “Terre des Hommes”, which promotes the development of the most disadvantaged children In an interview given in 2020 to the magazine Mujer Hoy, he answered the question of knowing if children are among the groups that concerned him the most. His answer: 'I remember that, as a young man, I started in San Cristóbal, with Father Ángel, helping excluded children, with significant social uprooting'.

He is the founder of Jacob Fitzgerald Events & Communication. More than 2000 prestigious events organized around the world from Paris to Miami via Los Angeles.

His career in the world of public relations and communication has earned him numerous distinctions, such as the Dove of Peace, which was awarded to him by the "Fundación Mensajeros de la Paz", jointly with the King Queen of Spain, the Pompidou Prize for Communication which he received in Paris from the hands of Leonardo Di Caprio or the “European Citizen Prize” granted by the Europa Forum.

The aforementioned police sources confirm that Nacho Jacob has already hired the criminal lawyer Raúl Pardo-Geijo, named Spain's best lawyer in criminal law in 2020 by the prestigious legal publishers Client Choice and Best Lawyers.

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Verheugen rules out Romanian adoption help

THE European Commission has ruled out mediating for couples trying to adopt children from Romanian orphanages.

EUROPEAN VOICEBy DAVID CRONIN 5/29/02, 5:00 PM CET Updated 4/12/14, 7:59 AM CET

About 35 million euro in EU funding has already been allocated to help replace the old-style orphanages associated with the Ceaucescu era. But enlargement chief Günter Verheugen said: "The Commission has neither the competence nor the intention to deal with individual cases."

The German commissioner was replying to a query by Spanish centre-right MEP Encarnación Redondo Jiménez, who asked what the EU's executive could do to overcome the moratorium on adoptions imposed by the Romanian authorities in June 2001.

"I will be absolutely stubborn and stubborn in my fight for international adoption"

Adoptive mother of two children, Claire Gibault (ALDE) has made child protection one of her priorities. Last February, the MP presented, alongside Jean-Marie Cavada (ALDE) and Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, a joint declaration on international adoption, which they believe should be encouraged. when there is no national solution.

Intercountry adoption is an issue close to your heart. What elements of your personal experience have influenced your positions on this subject?

I experience international adoption every day, and I feel compelled to defend a cause that seems essential to me for the protection of children. I adopted two children in Togo, which for me is a great success and a great joy. Our family also participates in interviews to show that international adoption is sometimes the solution that will allow children to live a normal life. In your opinion, the ban on international adoption by certain countries, such as Romania, does not meet its initial objectives of combating child trafficking. Why ?

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How a family lives together varies by country and culture, but the standard family of husband, wife and children is no longer the norm. Living together with several partners, adult children, grandchildren, adopted or foster children, eight cats or three dogs: in this series people talk about their families. This week: Miranda Tollenaar (49), who single-handedly adopted daughter Mica (5) from Haiti.

By Hannah König

Miranda Tollenaar had a traditional picture in mind: marry a nice man, four children. Her great wish was a large family with both biological and adopted children. The pedagogical employee from Arnhem did not meet the love of her life and therefore decided to fulfill her wish to have children alone. Recently, her dream came true: she became the mother of five-year-old Mica from Haiti.

Waited eleven years for an adopted baby

Tollenaar took the time to discover who she was, traveled extensively and worked for charities. She was open to a husband, but the right partner did not come along. Relationships broke down, but her desire to have children remained. "I consciously chose not to let the children pass by me. I decided to go for adoption from abroad on my own. That moment was eleven years ago. How did I survive all this time? I kept thinking : it will take a maximum of two or three years and then I will be a mother."

After the birth, parents may decide not to take care of the child themselves, because they see no possibilities to do so. They are given time to consider whether or not to give up the child. The child is then first cared for in a temporary foster family.

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NEW DELH: Nandini (name changed) and her husband had registered with the Central Adoption Resource Authority in 2018. After a long wait to be matched with a child, the Pune based couple was finally able to bring their 6 - month old daughter home as foster parents in April 2021. The child turns 2 later this week but the parents are yet to get the adoption order with the court where her matter was listed on the 12th of this month for a hearing getting deferred to September 30 and parents concerned over what lies ahead as new rules notified by the central government on September 1 sought immediate transfer of all pending cases in courts to the district magistrate.

Incidentally, amid rising worries of parents, on September 12 the ministry of women and child development wrote to all states to direct the concerned authorities to transfer all cases from the courts to the DM to prevent any further delay in passing of adoption orders. This was in keeping with the notification of the Juvenile Justice Model (Amendment) Rules 2022 that came into effect on September 1. There are over 900 cases estimated to be pending in Courts at different stages of hearing across the country.

Going by the rules the DM will have to dispose of an application for making an adoption order within a period of two months. However, the adoption regulations that will lay out the process are yet to be notified. According to the ministry of women and child development the notification will happen this week.

With September 30 as the next date of hearing listed in the court, an anxious Nandini for now is clueless about the fate of her case. She wrote to the concerned authorities dealing with adoptions on September 13. She is still awaiting a response to her mails. “I am emotionally drained.. I will be celebrating my daughter’s second birthday this week but her grandmother who lives in another city has yet to see her as rules do not allow me to take her out of the city I live in till the adoption is complete,” Nandini said.

Nandini's case reflects the dilemma of parents whose cases are at an advanced stage in court and who are seeking clarity on if and when the court will transfer their case to the district magistrate and how quickly will the latter take it up. The fear of further delay due to the administrative process of transfer of cases and then in passage of adoption orders is worrying parents like Nandini.

A parliamentary panel has found that a rise in the number of child abandonment cases may lead to a rise in the number of illegal adoptions.

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Why was the adoption process in the news recently?

The Parliamentary Panel on the Review of Guardianship and Adoption Laws has recommended a district-level survey of orphaned and abandoned children, given the huge mismatch in the number of children available for adoption in Specialized Adoption Agencies (“SAA”) and the persons in line to become adoptive parents. Even though a large number of children are orphaned or abandoned, very few find their way in the formal adoption process.

The need of the hour, therefore, is the easing of the adoption process and the disincentivization of child abandonments. For parents who no longer wish to keep a child, a spree of social considerations may stymie their decision to surrender their child to an SAA, and abandonment may seem an easier choice. One such consideration is the anticipated future repercussions of the decision to surrender, especially in the absence of a guarantee against public dissemination of its information. A root search lies exactly at the heart of this consideration, which is an adoptee’s search for their biological parent in pursuit of obtaining knowledge of their identity, biological heritage and their sense of self.

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The right to personal identity begins with the right to life. Therefore, the notion of individual identity and personality has been encouraged. Whenever there is question of adoption, and in particular about inter-country adoption, all the different elements that constitute the identity of the child, including not only name, nationality and family relations, but also cultural environment, must be taken into account. This chapter deals with children’s right to identity, guiding principles/policies, understanding the surrendering process, feedback from recognized adoption agencies in India and information tips for older adoptees.

Two sisters who were adopted as babies and lived thousands of miles apart have been reunited thanks to a home DNA test.

The popularity of at-home DNA testing has boomed in recent years, as anyone can purchase a simple kit for themselves or a loved one and uncover secrets hidden in their own DNA.

MyHeritage, a leading genealogy site, ran a pro bono initiative called DNA Quest in 2018, where it donated 15,000 tests to adoptees to support them in being reunited with their birth families through DNA testing. This resulted in hundreds of reunions, according to the company. Sisters Ashleigh Brown and Laurinda Collado are one of those.

Brown and Collado are now aged 33 and 35. Born in the Dominican Republic to the same biological parents, Collado was adopted when she was 5 months old and raised as an only child in Bristol, Connecticut. Two years later, her adoptive parents were given the choice to take in her sister Ashleigh but they chose not to. Instead, Brown was adopted at 6 weeks old and grew up in Barbados.

While each knew that they had biological siblings somewhere, they lived with the fear that they might never meet their biological family, with nothing but pictures of their biological parents in baby albums. It wasn't until the DNA Quest initiative was launched by MyHeritage that they were able to take steps to find each other.