Do you remember adopting Amy, who was forcibly removed? Here she is today

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Amy, who was forcibly removed as a 12-year-old, is current in a new documentary. In the video you can see Amy explaining how she has it today and see a clip from the new documentary where Amy gets forced back in 2012. Show more

Amy Steen became famous in 2012 when she was forcefully removed from her foster family, and the violent scenes since then went around the country.

Originally, Amy Steen was adopted from Ethiopia and has for many years struggled with the system to allow her to see her biological family. Today, however, everything has changed.

'AMY'S WILL' - NEW STRONG TV 2 DOCUMENT

Amy travels back to Ethiopia hoping to be reunited with her family. The trip doesn't quite go as she had hoped. (Photos: Sunday Pictures / TV 2)

01/22/2019

TV 2 Dokumentar has for a number of years followed Amy, who was adopted away to Denmark and feels let down by both Danish and Ethiopian authorities. The documentary "Amy's will" is sent on TV 2 and TV 2 PLAY on Thursday 24 January.

By Lene Pind, TV 2 Communication

Amy feels she was bought and sold as a commodity when she was adopted from Ethiopia to Denmark

When Amy was 15 years old, she found out that you were paying money when adopting a child. She asked, "Isn't it just human trafficking with a finer word?"

She's split. She feels like a man divided into two. Amy Rebecca Steen is Ethiopian, but has lived in Denmark half of her 20-year-old life. Her mother and older sister, her grandfather and the rest of her family live in Ethiopia. Her little sister lives in Næstved at the adoptive family, where she herself lived the first year and a half of her time in Denmark before moving to a foster family because her adoptive parents did not power her.

"When I was 15 years old, I found out that you pay money when you adopt. And I remember I asked if it's not just human trafficking with a finer word? "

Amy and her sister were adopted through the agency DanAdopt in 2009, and in 2013, the agency was deprived of the right to convey adoptions from Ethiopia, because the National Board of Appeal considered that there were doubts as to whether the adoptions were ethically and legally justifiable. Several Ethiopian women told then that they felt pressured to adopt their children.

Lucilas Discovered: I was kidnapped and sold as a baby

On her 40th birthday, Lucila gave herself a present. She would seek her roots in Chile and get answers to what made her at four years old end up with an adoptive family in Sweden.

Lucila traveled to Chile in the hope of finding her biological family

Lucilas adoptive parents threatened to make her hereditary if she traveled to Chile. But when Lucila was 40, she got the courage to go anyway.

When Lucila Jensen, thirty-six years after she was kidnapped and adopted away from her country of birth, for the first time, Chilean land tore her heart. From her mouth came a cry of joy; I'm finally home!

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Number of children of single parent is more than double that of orphan, abandoned and surrendered children

The report by WCD ministry said single parents often send their kids to care homes to ensure safety and well-being of the child.

NEW DELHI: Of the over 3.7 lakh children lodged in homes meant for care of children in vulnerable circumstances across India

in 2016-17, over 1.2 lakh were the offspring of single parents (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/single-parents). Their

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Bhavana Jaiswal is in Thane to get engaged.(Praful Gangurde/HT)

For 28-year-old Bhavana Jaiswal, growing up in an orphanage turned out to be better, she says, as she might not have become the person she is today if she had stayed with her parents.

Today, she works in Poland as the project head of a multinational company. Jaiswal is in the city to get engaged to Andres Schaufelberger, 33, a Swiss national.

“I was seven and my sister Priyanka was six when our father left us. My mother could not raise us and sent us to Ma Niketan - Society of the Helpers of Mary orphanage in Thane. My brother was merely two years old at the time and therefore stayed with my mother,” says Jaiswal.

Horrible! Stolen children - horrible revelation of baby trade - 'Stolen' newborn babies: babies for sale

Babies are abducted and traded as commodities. In Nigeria, there are real baby factories, which let even for the European market babies in a cruel way by abducted girls. In China, about 70,000 babies are sold on the black market every year. In Canada, there is another case of indignation after an indigenous mother was "stolen" from her child at the hospital just two days after giving birth. Indigenous children in Canada: They are stolen, placed in care facilities, even abused there. Did you know that "enforced adoption" is practiced in England? At present, there are people in court who have stolen and sold up to 300,000 babies in Catholic institutions in Spain. In India, babies are stolen from hospitals by physicians or hospital nurses and sold to "adoption-willing." Stolen children - no, that happens not only in exotic countries, but also in Europe. We've already researched a lot of topics and we've often pushed ourselves to the limit, but as we now see, things are even worse.

Stolen children

We have often written about human trafficking because we believe that this "cruel" issue deserves more attention, just because of the victims, because many of them are children. When it comes to trafficking, Germany is a transit country and thus complicit in it. Modern human trafficking is legal even in Germany. Every year, millions of people are traded, with children being sold all over the world, especially in developed countries, as well as in European countries. But in other countries too, the trade in babies is booming. She was simply torn away from the mothers and then sold to others, mostly "rich ones".

It has long been reported by the "baby factories" in Nigeria, where kidnapped girls are imprisoned. They are then pregnant and the babies are sold. The industry is booming.

As an independent child protection researcher and rights activist, I have been asked repeatedly why the government is considering drastic changes to the Child Protection Act that will potentially have a dire impact on adoptions in South Africa. I share my opinion based on my experience as a change management consultant for the past 20 years, and specifically in the child protection community for the past nine. In doing this I hope to speak for abandoned children who are left on the streets, rubbish heaps and latrines of South Africa every year, for too often they do not have a voice.

Experiences in child protection in South Africa

I entered the child protection community in 2010, the year child abandonment sky-rocketed in South Africa. Having experienced multiple miscarriages and suffering from postpartum depression, my mothering instincts were on high alert.

In July of our World Cup year, I was horrified to see a picture of a newborn baby girl who had been abandoned and who had died on a rubbish heap on the outskirts of Soweto – on the front page of a national newspaper. Calling around, I quickly realised that the issue of child abandonment was reaching epidemic proportions (estimated at 3,500 children in 2010 alone). However, the Department of Social Development at the time were refusing to acknowledge that it was a problem.

To put this in perspective, a social worker at one of the largest child welfare organisations in the country told me that a few years previously, they would see only one or two abandoned children a month, but in 2010 as many as five or six children were being delivered to their doors every week.

CBI registers cases against 2 more shelter homes in Bihar for abuse of minors

The Supreme Court had directed the CBI to probe alleged abuse of inmates at 17 shelter homes listed in a study conducted by Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registeredtwofresh FIRs pertaining to alleged abuse of children in two shelter homes inGaya and Bhagalpur. This is in addition to its ongoing probe into sexual assault with minor girls at the Muzaffarpur shelter home.

This comes after the Supreme Court directive on November 28 to the CBI to probe alleged abuse of inmates at 17 shelter homeslisted in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) study.

The investigating agency lodged a case against director of Boy’s children home of Bhagalpur run by Rupam Pragati Samaj Samiti, while the second case was lodged against House Mother Children Home in Gaya.