Rani T’Kindt was abducted as a child for adoption: "My mother was panicking"
"Under the disguise of adoption, I was abducted as a baby in India in 1980," says Rani T'Kindt. The instructing party was De Vreugdezaaiers. In 2011 the adoption agency lost its recognition; half a year later, Ray of Hope, who had now been discredited, took over all the files.
"I have been illegally adopted and have therefore received residence papers in an illegal manner," said Rani T'Kindt (40), who won the Beijing Express TV program in 2003. "Yet nobody called on me to deport me, not even Vlaams Belang."
On July 5, 1980, the then one and a half year old Rani arrived by plane from India in Belgium. "My biological parents were among the lowest caste in the city of Puducherry," she says. "My mother gave birth to a girl, and my father wasn't happy with that. He abandoned her. Mama stood in the street with her newborn daughter and didn't know what to do. The nuns of the Catholic orphanage offered her a job as a cook. As a little baby, I grew up among the orphans. "
"At night mom had to sleep on the street; I got a bed between the other children. My Indian mother could not read or write, but like many other illiterates, she could put her name on paper. The nuns had her draw forms so that she gave me up without realizing it. One morning she arrived at the orphanage, and I was gone. "