The police have registered cases against three members of a family on the charge of illegal adoption of a child from Mumbai.

The Bekal police registered cases against Sheikh Ismail, 62, his daughter Shamima, 37, and their relative Suharabi, 43, under Section 80 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act for illegally adopting a 48-day-old child.

Child Welfare Officer P.A. Bindu said Sheikh Ismail had adopted the baby from Mumbai, as his daughter was childless. However, after the District Child Protection Unit received information on the matter, the child was taken into custody by the Child Welfare Committee and admitted to the foundling home at Palakkaunnu.

Ms. Bindu said how the family adopted the child had to be investigated.

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The accused have been identified as Ikrat alias Guddi (30), Renu (28), Moni Begum (30), Rekha (46), Yogesh (36) and Mohammad Saddan (50).

New Delhi: Six people including two employees of a Noida-based IVF clinic were arrested after police busted an adoption racket running illegally in the national capital.

According to the police, the IVF clinic employees used to sell babies to childless couples. The accused have been identified as Ikrat alias Guddi (30), Renu (28), Moni Begum (30), Rekha (46), Yogesh (36) and Mohammad Saddan (50), reported the Times of India.

“With the arrests, we have solved a case of illegal child trafficking. The kidnapped baby was safely recovered. We also seized Rs 5 lakhs from the suspects,” DCP (Rohini) Pranav Tayal was quoted as saying by TOI.

The incident came to light after police received a call about a newborn baby's kidnapping at around 3.30pm on April 1. When cops rushed to the spot, the child’s mother said she had been sleeping with the baby by her side but woke up to find him gone. A case was registered and police formed a team to trace the child.

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We can vote again on March 17th . To get into the mood, we will give you a picture of the person behind the politician in the near future. This time: Kees van der Staaij (SGP).

We know Cornelis Gerrit van der Staaij (52) as a politician , but who is he as a person? How was his childhood, who are his loved ones? Libelle looked it up for you.

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Household: Married to Marlies, two children: Michaël (20) and Camila (17)

Education: Law in Leiden

Victorians who were adopted will have the choice to include both their birth and adoptive parents on their birth certificates.

Legislation introduced on Tuesday will create integrated birth certificates, allowing the names of an adopted person’s birth parents, adoptive parents and the date of their adoption to be included on their certificate.

Under current law, only adoptive parents are listed on certificates.

The change will enable adopted people aged 18 and older who wish to update their records to access a certificate that better represents their origins and history.

It follows through on a recommendation made by the Parliamentary Inquiry into Historical Forced Adoption in Victoria.

On Monday, the Supreme Court, inter alia, directed the State Government/ Union

Territories to complete the process of preparation of Social Investigation Reports in

respect of the children who have been identified to have lost both or either parents post

March, 2020 and produce them before the Child Welfare Committee. With respect to the

financial liabilities of the...

Nonprofit overcomes previous group's mental health obstacles to publish translation of doctor's memoir

After recovering from a series of setbacks, a new Oregon City-based nonprofit organization for adoptees has bounced back by publishing the memoir of an award-winning Korean doctor and continuing to support people of Korean descent in the United States.

Canby resident Jodi Gill, who serves as president of the new Adoptee Group, has traveled to Korea over a dozen times and has had the opportunity to visit the orphanage where she lived before being adopted in April 1976. Previously, Gill served on the board of the Gide Foundation, an organization with the same mission that had to dissolve due to the mental health conditions of two of its co-founders, one of whom was identified as misappropriating funds.

Gill said that mental health conditions and addiction among Korean-American adoptees is unfortunately common, and it's estimated that 20% of them struggle with these symptoms on a daily basis.

"Despite the mental health disruptions, the co-founders hold a place of value and respect for where we are today," Gill said. "The Adoptee Group is fulfilling what the Gide Foundation wanted to accomplish at a turbo speed despite the setbacks that come with working in a community where pain lingers."

When Mariel Vos (39) was four months old, she was adopted. When she was eleven she ended up in a foster family, where she lived until she was seventeen. Mariël: “People often expect that everything will be fine in a foster family. But that is not always the case.”

Mariel's adoptive parents were gifted people. They couldn't really take care of her, so Mariel had to deal with mental abuse. “I kept hearing that they regretted adopting me. They thought I was very expensive and wanted more value for money. As a six-year-old girl, I knew exactly what I had cost. I was also beaten by my parents. It was a very tough situation.”

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When Mariel was nine years old, she ended up in day foster care. Out of school, around three o'clock, she went to a foster home and also stayed there for dinner. Then she was taken back to her adoptive parents. “At a certain point I could see the differences between my adoptive parents and me more and more. Actually, I took care of them, instead of them taking care of me. As a child you are very loyal to your parents. I really loved them, they were my mom and dad, even though their upbringing was totally wrong.”

Two years later, Mariel was then eleven years old, she was permanently removed from home. An experience she will never forget. “In the morning my adoptive parents told me that in an hour I would leave for my day foster care family. I totally panicked. I cried and apologized a hundred times for everything I did wrong in life. I so wanted to stay with them. I promised that I would always be sweet and caring. It was a traumatic event. In retrospect, I also think it was a low point in my life.” In the period after that, Mariel suffered from homesickness. She wanted so badly to go back to her parents. “I also noticed that I found it very difficult to act on the love of the foster family. These people were nice, but I was scared to death for doing something wrong. I was afraid that I would have to leave again.”

This article is the 32nd in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Some of the articles of this series will dedicate space to parts of the Amicus Brief submitted to the Korean court by Dr. Lee Kyung-eun. The Amicus Brief was written as a Q&A to assist the judges in understanding the historic meaning of this case. Special mention and appreciation must go to Raymond Ha (M.A. '21, Stanford Univ.), Hyejin Jang (B.A. '21 Princeton Univ.), Do Yon Lena Kwon (J.D. Candidate '22, Penn Law), Hailey M. Lee (J.D. Candidate '24, Penn Law), and Lydia Lim (J.D. '21, Penn Law) for fully translating this 70-page long brief into English as an act of solidarity for the rights of adoptees. ? ED.

By Lee Kyung-eun

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Question: Korea and U.S.' inter-country adoption, which began immediately after the Korean War in the 1950s, increased to the extent that Korea was sending 500 children overseas per month, and 8,000 children per year by the 1980s. Please explain the characteristics of Korea and U.S.' inter-country adoption that led to such a result.

Answer: "Orphan adoption," which originated in Europe post World War II for the emergency rescue of displaced war orphans, became highly systematized in Korea.

Pieter Omtzigt has asked parliamentary questions about Insiya, who was kidnapped in 2016. Her father, Shehzad Hemani, had his daughter kidnapped in 2016 and took her to India, where she still resides, against her mother's will. The questions come at a precarious moment: the Netherlands will receive the Indian president next week.

A year and a half ago, Hemani was sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison for having the girl kidnapped from her grandmother's home in Watergraafsmeer and taken to India illegally. A cousin of Hemani was sentenced to four years in prison for involvement, but he fled abroad.

“The kidnapping was violent and unheard of,” the judge said at the time. “A family life has been destroyed. The effects are difficult to measure. For Insiya's mother, it is a never-ending grieving process. Insiya is also separated from the rest of her family.” India has been asked to extradite Hemani, but has so far refused to do so.

Since Insiya has been in India, her father has stopped contacting her mother Nadia Rashid . The girl's parents were divorced before the kidnapping and had a conflict about parental authority. After the kidnapping, Rashid saw her daughter only a few times via Skype.

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