Adoptions, the "child thieves" are not there. The filing that nails the authority: "groundless complaints and abuse of power"
After 5 years the Milan Court acquits a Milanese non-profit organization from the charge of "buying children" in the Congo. The decree of archiving also shows the role played by a piece of the State in crediting accusations "unfounded" against the sector, already grappling with numbers falling: the Adoption Commission, in the hands of the ex-magistrate Della Monica, would have "crossed their institutional powers ", also committing" abuse of power "
Italians are not "Thieves of children". The crime report was unfounded. A few days ago the Court of Milan issued a decree to dismiss the criminal proceedings against the heads of "Aibi - Amici dei bambini", a body in San Giuliano Milanese active in international adoptions in Congo since 2007. They were investigated in 2017 for alleged serious crimes following a series of complaints lodged with the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome in 2014 by the then Vice President of the International Adoptions Commission, Silvia Della Monica. The investigation was then transferred to Milan for territorial jurisdiction. The association, according to the original hypothesis of Della Monica, had used the money offered as a donation by the aspiring parents to corrupt the Congolese judicial and police authorities to obtain the issue of "adoptability decrees" of minors, which would have been so "Bought" and removed from the legitimate natural families to then be sent to adoptions in reality not needed.
The international scandal was told in episodes by the weekly L’Espresso, starting from a cover with an alarming title: “Thieves of children. Shock investigation "then awarded as" cover of the year ". Three years after that publication and five from the first accusations, the castle of hypothesized crimes proved - in the words of the investigating magistrate Sofia Fioretta - unfounded on the merits: "There are no concrete procedural elements, not even circumstantial, to hypothesize to support in a judgment that AiBi had "paid" the natural parents as compensation to be able to bring their children to adoption ". So for the other very serious accusations, which ranged from the criminal association to the violation of the rules on adoptions, up to the hypothesis of mistreatment.
The decree of no place to proceed, which we publish in full (DOWNLOAD), is important because, in addition to rehabilitating the defendants and the Milanese body, it raises the adoption sector from a shameful shadow cast for years without a founded reason. On a sector already grappling with dive numbers compared to the past. The decision that archives a long season of poisons gives us a glimpse of the responsibility of a piece of the State, that International Adoption Commission (CAI) that the legislator has placed directly under the umbrella of the Presidency of the Council, so high and delicate is the sphere of rights which had to protect, together with the legality in the adoption procedures. Well, the decree today tells how from that position, instead, a black page was written in which the public authority "went beyond its institutional powers and committed an abuse of power". Thus writes the magistrate on page 22 of the decree.