Every parent’s worst nightmare happened to an American couple a week ago in Kenya. Matt and Daisy Mazzoncini became the legal guardians to a three-year-old boy in April 2017 after he and his twin were abandoned in a plastic bag outside of a prayer center in Kiambu, run by a friend of Daisy Mazzoncini. After caring for him and paying for medical treatment, the couple was awarded joint legal guardianship.

On the night of Friday, April 5, eleven alleged DCI officers raided their home in Westlands and took the boy with no explanation or documentation. The couple still does not know where their son has been taken, and Americans are rallying behind them as they work to use habeas corpus to get the child back.

According to The Star, the real trouble began when the Mazzoncinis applied for adoption after they were told it may be possible to “get an exemption from the moratorium on adoption.” They had to do many interviews with the Child Welfare Society, where they were ultimately accused of child trafficking and creating false records to make it look like the child was sick. However, the boy had continuous epileptic seizures in September 2018 and was advised to go abroad for specialized treatment.

Right before they were due in children’s court to apply for permission to take him to the United States, a group of people dressed as government officials came and demanded to take the boy. After the abduction, the DCI sent out a tweet claiming responsibility for the kidnapping and credit for the boy’s “rescue.” The tweet has since been removed.

The couple still does not know where their son has been taken, and Americans are rallying behind them as they work to use habeas corpus to get the child back.

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THE HAGUE (AFP) - A Dutch doctor at the centre of an IVF scandal fathered at least 49 children, an organisation representing parents and children born through his now-closed clinic said on Friday (April 12).

Jan Karbaat, who died in 2017, is the father of 49 children born after women visited his Rotterdam clinic where he used his own sperm instead of sperm from a chosen donor to inseminate them, Defence for Children said.

Results of DNA tests conducted on Friday at a hospital in the southeastern city of Nijmegen "showed that 49 children in the case are direct descendants of the late Karbaat," the organisation said in a statement.

"The results confirm serious suspicions that Karbaat used his own sperm at his clinic," Defence for Children added.

The controversial case became public after a Dutch court ruled in February that the results of Karbaat's DNA test should be made available to parents and children to conduct their own comparisons.

Column Ina Hut: 'Tackle human trafficking, the moral of the debate!'

The youth movement Exxpose wants to make punishment for sex in the Netherlands punishable. With the petition 'I am priceless' that was offered to the House of Representatives on Wednesday 10 April, they hope to stimulate both the social and political debate about this. 40,000 people have now signed. Exxpose refers to the so-called "nordic model". Then both sex buyers and third parties who earn from prostitution are punishable. People in prostitution are not punishable and help is offered.

According to Exxpose, evaluations of countries where this model has already been introduced show that by tackling the demand for prostitution, fewer people will start buying sex, the country will become less attractive to traffickers and fewer people will be exploited in prostitution.

Although it is commendable that these young people are concerned about the fate of (potential) victims of human trafficking, it strikes me that in the debate about prostitution and human trafficking two things are often confused. Similarly here. On the one hand the abuses in prostitution, prostitution in relation to human trafficking. On the other hand, the moral judgment about prostitution / sex work: Love and sex belong together ... It would only be your daughter ...

Beyond the polarization

Some ask me about the adoption process, some are curious about bonding, and others wonder how to reveal the adoption to their extended family.

Personally what warms my heart is when people discuss special needs adoption or older child adoption with me.

As an adoption counsellor, I have the humble privilege of talking to a wide spectrum of adoptive families both before and after the adoption. Some ask me about the adoption process, some are curious about bonding, and others wonder how to reveal the adoption to their extended family. Personally what warms my heart is when people discuss special needs adoption or older child adoption with me. Not too long ago, a couple who have biological sons talked to me about adopting a daughter with special needs. The line between personal and professional blurred as I counselled them and also shared stories of my own daughters’ adoptions (one with a special need).

A few weeks after the counselling session, the couple went ahead and adopted a five-year old girl who was in the special needs category due to an amputated leg. When this beautiful girl was a baby, the cruel inhumanity that millions of girls face in our country had caused her to lose one of her legs. After that, she was raised in a children’s shelter who took care of her and put her in the legal adoption pool.

This is no small feat.

European knowledge center Aftercare Adoption in Venray

The Nazorg Adoptie association wants to establish a European knowledge center in Venray that will deal with help to adopters, adoptive parents and distance parents. On Friday, June 21, an international symposium on follow-up care at adoption takes place in Venray. The Dutch association has a strong Venray interpretation: the chair is Anne-Marie Goossens from Venray, one of the board members is Puk Heijnen-Poels from Oostrum. Both have been adopted.

For adopters (nationally and internationally), adoptive parents and distance parents, much is regulated by law when it comes to the preliminary process to come to an adoption. However, after the actual adoption has taken place, the support and guidance will lapse. "Nothing has been regulated by law how it will go with the adopted children and their adoptive parents once they have been 'placed'," explains Anne-Marie Goossens. "In short, there is no statutory aftercare for adopted persons and their adoptive parents. Practical and scientific research shows that there is a great need for regulated aftercare. A disproportionately large number of adopted persons, adoptive parents and distance parents rely on assistance. Adopted persons have assistance. four to five times more often than not adopted residential care needed. "

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De vereniging Nazorg Adoptie wil in Venray een Europees kenniscentrum vestigen dat zich gaat bezighouden met hulp aan geadopteerden, adoptieouders en afstandsouders. Op vrijdag 21 juni vindt in Venray een internationaal symposium over nazorg bij adoptie plaats. De Nederlandse vereniging heeft een sterke Venrayse invulling: voorzitter is Anne-Marie Goossens uit Venray, één van de bestuursleden is Puk Heijnen-Poels uit Oostrum. Beiden zijn geadopteerd.

Patricia and Aaron Pearson were overjoyed when, after four years of trying, they finally conceived their daughter Emma.

But they always dreamed of giving her a sibling. Since pregnancy had been such a struggle, and they knew there were children out there that needed a home, they turned to Choices Adoption and Pregnancy Counselling Agency on Vancouver Island.

The couple spent $12,000, underwent numerous background checks, had a home study and took part in an education course. They were registered in the domestic adoption program and on the wait list for a South African adoption when they received an announcement from Choices last week.

The e-mail informed them Choices was closing as of May 31, staff were working to find another agency to take on the Pearsons’ file and they would be in touch, Patricia Pearson said.

“We were pretty shocked. It seemed to come out of the blue. We hadn’t had any indication that they were struggling financially or that this was a possibility,” she said.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019

IAC 459 - 461

The following referrals were issued in IAC Session 459 which was held on April 11, 2019:

1) Dutch dossier from May 2012 referred a female child aged 2 years and 2 months with features in health status.

2) French dossier from October 2013 referred a male child aged 5 years and 4 months with a family history

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA)-- Around Arkansas, certain adoptions could now be criminalized as human trafficking thanks to a bill heading to the Governor's desk.

This bill aims at helping expecting moms and stop adoption crimes from happening right here in Northwest Arkansas.

An attorney in Rogers says he's personally worked with women who have been taken advantage of through the adoption process and fell target to empty threats of jail time and deportation if they didn't cooperate.

"It's a tough road to walk along when you have no support," said Michaela Montie, the Executive Director of the non-profit Shared Beginnings.

Montie is the mother of three adopted children.

How Europe's biggest child trafficking gang escaped justice

New homes are being built in Tanderai, allegedly financed by the proceeds of human traffickingNew homes are being built in Tanderai, allegedly financed by the proceeds of human trafficking CREDIT: PETRUT CALINESCU

James Rothwell, tandarei

10 APRIL 2019 • 7:00AM

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