TRICHY: The Trichy district administration on Friday released the photo of a baby boy found abandoned at Thirupparaithurai to enable the parents of the baby to claim him.

The newborn was found abandoned in front of Sri Ramakrishna Kudil at Thirupparatihurai around 10 pm on January 2. On getting information, Child Line staff rescued the baby and rushed him to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH).

The baby was named Edward. After being discharged from the hospital, the baby was taken to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). The committee issued a temporary custody order to give care and protection to the baby at the Adaikkalamadha specialised adoption agency in Ariyalur.

The baby will be kept in the home until he is given a free adoption certificate for legal adoption to a childless couple.

Now, the district administration and the District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) released the picture of the baby so that anyone who knows the details about the parents or relatives can report to the CWC Trichy at 0431-2413819, 9894487572 or district child protection unit (DCPU), Trichy at 0431-2413055 and 8220507101 within 21 days. The offices of CWC and DCPU function at Kalaiarangam hall in Trichy.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Giving a newborn child up for adoption can be the most difficult decision a mother or family can make. However, the secrecy that surrounded some adoptions decades ago created a generation of children with no idea who their birth parents were.

This period of time, which lasted from about 1943 to 1970, is known as the “Baby Scoop Era.” Author and filmmaker Ann Fessler has spent decades researching the lives shattered by adoption practices of the past.

“They would tell a women her baby died because then she would be able to forget about it and let it go,” Fessler recounted. “They sensed the birth mother was going to have a lot of trouble, so if they say the baby didn’t live, they wouldn’t have to think about it anymore.”

That scenario unfolded for Tom Taylor and his fiancé Barb in 1969.

They decided to give their baby up for adoption weeks before her birth because they worried how people would react to their pregnancy.

The Uvari police have arrested five persons for selling and buying a girl baby.

Police said Thangaselvi, 32, of Karaisuttru Uvari near Thisaiyanvilai in the district, who left her husband to marry Arjunan, 38, of the same area, gave birth to a girl baby in December last. Since the woman already had two girls through her first husband, Thangaselvi and Arjunan decided to sell the newborn girl baby.

When the couple was scouting for prospective buyers, they met Selvakumar – Vinciya of Kerala through broker Mariappan, 38, an autorickshaw driver from nearby coastal hamlet of Koottappanai.

After the baby was sold to Selvakumar and Vinciya for ?1.40 lakh, the baby fell sick and was taken to a hospital in Kottayam. When the hospital authorities found that the couple had illegally adopted the baby, they alerted the police, who in turn informed the Tirunelveli District Police about the sale of the baby.

Subsequently, the Uvari police registered a cased and arrested Selvakumar, Vinciya, Thangaselvi, Mariappan and Arjunan.

New Delhi: In a major development, a Delhi court has allowed a Muslim prisoner to adopt a child. The Patiala House court ordered jail superintendent to take the man to the adoption office for completing formalities where his signs were required.

The court of Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana said no one can't be barred from adopting a child just because one believes in Islam.

Earlier, the prosecution had opposed the plea arguing Islam does not have any provision to allow a Muslim to adopt a child, according to a report in Hindi daily Hindustan.

The judge said that a person can not be denied the right to adopt a child just because he comes from Muslim community. Everyone has an equal right to adopt a child.

A jailed Muslim man had approached the court through his lawyer Kausar Khan seeking parole to go to Haryana's Nuh district to complete adoption formalities.

Following Russia’s invasion, the widespread internal displacement of families in Ukraine has led to a precarious situation for vulnerable children, with reports of forced deportations and illegal adoptions to Russia raising particular concerns.

More than five million women and children have fled Ukraine since the outbreak of the conflict on 24 February.

According to reports by Ukrainian officials, Russia has forced over 150,000 children to leave Eastern Ukraine and enter Russia’s adoption system – although, it should be noted that these figures are based on limited information on the whereabouts of the children.

“In violation of international humanitarian law and basic standards of humanness, Russia is engaged in state-organised kidnapping of children,” said the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in a statement.

Russian media reported that Ukrainian children from the Donbas region are being integrated into their adoption system. Russian ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova stressed the importance of placing these orphans, who may or may not have living relatives, in Russian families.

March 30, 2005 — -- "20/20's" Elizabeth Vargas recently reported on an international adoption scandal stemming from the adoption of children from Cambodia. In her report, Vargas spoke with Trish Maskew, president and chief executive officer of Ethica: A Voice for Ethical Adoption, who advocates better regulation of both domestic and international adoption.

ABCNEWS.com received hundreds of questions from viewers interested in adoption and in helping the Cambodian orphans featured in "20/20's" story. Below is a selection of questions and Maskew's answers. For more information about adoption issues, visit Ethicanet on the Web at www.Ethicanet.org.

Terry of Alpharetta, Ga., writes:

I saw the "20/20" special and would like to help the orphanage that was shown. Is there a way to send donation directly to them and communicate directly to them?

Trish Maskew

March 29, 2022 - We are deeply alarmed by Cambodia reopening intercountry adoptions and the Italian government’s apparent disclosure that at least nine potential adoptions from Cambodia are being processed by Italian adoption agencies. We fear these decisions will lead to more families being irreparably torn apart by a poorly regulated system that has failed to protect children’s best interests in the past.

Cambodia reports having sent 3,696 children abroad for adoption between 1998 and 2011. The country suspended intercountry adoptions following evidence of fraud and corruption. Cambodian officials forged documents to falsely change some children’s names or ages or claim they were orphaned or abandoned, before children were adopted abroad without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

Cambodia today still lacks a sufficient child protection system, judicial system and anti-corruption measures to guarantee that adoptions will proceed legally and ethically. Despite Cambodia acceding to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption in 2007 and enacting numerous laws and policies, there is no guarantee that intercountry adoptions would occur in children’s best interests.

Cambodian and Italian government agencies have ignored requests for information from LICADHO in recent months about the reopening of intercountry adoptions, including requests for information about the bilateral agreement, related procedures, and when children are expected to leave Cambodia.

Since 2017, six families have approached LICADHO to seek information about 15 children who were fraudulently adopted from Cambodia in the 2000s. Each family had temporarily placed their children in shelters or orphanages after being told their children would receive care and an education before returning home. Parents often only learned their children had left the country when they returned to visit them and found them missing. Each family has spent years seeking information about their children. While some children have been located abroad following extensive investigations, for others there has been no confirmation of where they are, who is caring for them, or if they are even alive, leaving families in a state of limbo and continued suffering.

For years, adoption agencies preyed upon impoverished Cambodian mothers, taking their children in shady circumstances and sending them to families abroad.

Elizabeth Jacobs remembers some of the earliest red flags she noticed when she was trying to learn more about her adoption from Cambodia as a baby in 2000.

While the 22-year-old’s birth certificate stated Jan. 1 as her birth date, records kept by the orphanage indicated Feb. 2. Her surname, too, was listed in her adoption document as “Rath,” Khmer for state or government, and known to be commonly used in falsified birth documents. Then there was the fact that Jacobs had no information about her biological family.

But the brightest red flag of them all came when Jacobs found out who facilitated her adoption: an American named Lauryn Galindo. Galindo was convicted of fraud in 2004 after handling the adoptions of about 800 Cambodian children, some of whom were deemed to have been disguised as orphans, but were in fact sold by impoverished mothers for as little as the price of a bag of rice.

The more she dug into her adoption, the more unsettled Jacobs felt, grappling with the reality that she might not have been “rescued” as an orphan from Cambodia at all.

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Kozhikode

The Child Welfare Committee of Kozhikode sent the 4-year-old-boy, who was illegally adopted by a couple in Chakkumkadavu, Kozhikode, with his biological parents. CWC Chairman P.M. Thomas said that the child left with his parents for Wayanad on Wednesday.

The child was found by the police at his adoptive home at Chakkumkadavu a month ago after one of the actual children of the adoptive parents reported it at his school following which the Child Welfare Committee intervened. The CWC wanted to give the child back to his biological parents if they were willing to accept him, or else start legal adoption proceedings for him.

The police, upon investigation, identified an unwed couple from Wayanad as the child's biological parents. The mother, due to her unwed status, wanted to give up the child after he was born in a private hospital in Kozhikode in 2018. She was planning to leave him in the 'Amma Thottil', but was unwilling to travel to Thrissur for the purpose. She handed over the child to the couple in Chakkumkadavu through a caregiver at the hospital as mediator.