Incredibly, out of the more than 20 million orphans in India, less than 1% even make it to orphanages. #ImpactThatMatters #SupremeCourt

Out of the 20 million orphans in India, less than 1% are in orphanages. 117 districts in India do not have a single orphanage. (Source: MWCD Trackchild-Child Care Institutions in 2015). However, even those who make it there aren’t any better off.

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A glaring example of this came to light in May 2018 when young girls between the ages of 7-17 suffered rampant sexual abuse over many months at an orphanage in Muzaffarpur, Bihar.

Additionally, orphanages arbitrate over giving these children a name, caste certificate and everything else. Maharashtra is currently the only state in India that does this, in addition to providing orphans with a 1 per cent reservation in government jobs.

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AHMEDABAD: Continuing probe of the child-bride (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/child-bride) sale incident, a video

of which had gone viral pushing the social justice department to act, has revealed that the 10-year-old’s father was a jobless

labourer. His desperation for money to feed his family was exploited by a village agent who arranged a ‘marriage’ of his

daughter, against Rs 50,000, to a 37-year-old Ahmedabad man. A team from Ahmedabad city women’s crime branch had on

Tuesday raided a house in Asarwa, rescued the girl and sent her to a women’s protection home in Odhav. Hadad police is

Officials swing into action to stop the sale of the baby

Even as the government is making efforts to protect girl children, incidents of baby selling and abandonment of female babies are continuing.

In a fresh such incident, the father of a female baby reportedly tried to sell his daughter at Chinavutapalli village in Krishna district on Thursday. However, the family members objected to it.

According to sources, Rajitha, wife of Rajesh, gave birth to female twins a week ago in a private hospital. Rajesh said that he cold not afford to bring up the two girls and was making efforts to sell one of the infants.

“In the last few days, a few couples visited the hospital and had a look of the infants. They said they wanted to take the baby, for which I objected,” said Rajitha’s father Savanadhri.

During the course of the investigation, hundreds of children have lost out on their education as several of them were sent back to their poverty-ridden lives

Exonerating Muslim orphanages in Kerala of child trafficking charges going back to 2014, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report in the Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court.In the report submitted to the court, CBI has stated that parents and guardians of minor children had insisted that they had sent their children to Kerala hoping that they would get educated, free food and other facilities free of cost. In the report, they have stated that “no kind of exploitation was noticed by any witness”.The sensational case saw the Railway Police detaining 589 children — who had arrived in two trains from Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal —in May 2014 at the Palakkad Junction railway station. All the detained children were from extremely poor families and the majority of them did not have documents to prove their identity. However, some of the children had identity cards of Mukkam Muslim Orphanage in Kozhikode.Even when the children had been detained, the orphanage authorities had stated that some of these children were orphans and some others were there with parental permission as they were sent to Kerala hoping that they would get better education and care. The Kerala State Minority Commission said insisted then that no trafficking was involved.It was then alleged by a few child rights activists and Central agencies that it was a case of child trafficking as none of them possessed the mandatory documents such as admission papers and certificates related to birth, age, income. Eight persons too had been arrested in the case and were released on bail only nine months later.When the case did not make much progress, the Kerala High Court ordered a CBI investigation into the multi-state case in July 2015. After fours years, it has been found that it was a false alarm and a case of persecution of Muslim orphanages due to the prevailing anti-Muslim rhetoric.The case shook political circles in Kerala after the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) had alleged ‘prejudice’ while filing the FIR. Former Kerala BJP president and the current MoS Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan was one of the first to demand a CBI enquiry. Even the then Union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi had said it was a clear case of child trafficking and she had sought a report from the state government, which was then headed by Congress-backed United Democratic Front (UDF).During the course of the investigation, CBI officials found that Idris Alam, one of the cooks at an orphanage, had admitted his daughter and son at Mukkam Muslim Orphanage and Manassery Muslim orphanage respectively in Kozhikode. His wife was also working in the orphanage as a cleaner. During their summer vacations when they went back to Bihar and Jharkhand, their neighbours and relatives, who are all daily wage labourers, requested the couple to take their children as well since most of them had at least seven children each.

Bathinda, October 17

The minor pregnant rape victim has given birth to a baby girl at Women and Children Hospital here. A day after the delivery, the newborn was handed over to the District Child Welfare Committee.

The mother and the infant are healthy after a normal delivery that took place two days ago at the hospital. The infant weighs around 3.8 kg which is a sign of a healthy baby, said a doctor.

Sukhjinder Singh Gill, Senior Medical Officer, Women and Children Hospital, Bathinda, said, “Since both mother and infant were healthy, the latter has been handed over to the District Child Welfare Committee on family members’ request. Now, they will follow up the process of child’s adoption further.”

Talking to Bathinda Tribune, Ravneet Sidhu, District Child Protection Officer, said, “Since the newborn has been surrendered by the mother and her family, she will be under observation for two months at the child adoption agency. Thereafter, we will seek approval for her adoption from the local court before the process of adoption can be initiated. It seems that adoption will take a few months. During the two-month period, parents or family members of the baby can claim the child after which (if they don’t) we will initiate the process of adoption.”

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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