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LETTER FROM GUATEMALA — From the April 2019 issue

Destined for Export

The troubled legacy of Guatemalan adoptions

When she was growing up in Downingtown, Stefanie Beard wondered if she might someday locate a blood relative in China, from where she was adopted as a baby.

But she never expected to find one in this country — much less one living 12 miles away.

That’s what happened when Beard, 21, a Temple University junior, submitted a DNA sample to 23andMe. The California-based genetics company soon alerted her to the existence of a biological cousin, Claire Mitchell, a 20-year-old Bryn Mawr College sophomore who also was adopted from China.

“Both of our minds are blown,” Beard said.

The women soon realized they came not just from the same southern Chinese province, but from the same small town, and in fact from the same orphanage, the Huazhou Social Welfare Institution.

Gunther Krichbaum's ex-wife is said to testify in the process of slander as a witness

Enzkreis / Pforzheim. Once again yesterday, no judgment was made before the district court Pforzheim. As reported, defend there Oana Krichbaum, lawyer and CDU municipal candidate in Pforzheim, and her husband, CDU member of parliament Gunther Krichbaum, against the public statements of a 46-year-old from the Enzkreis. The Germans with Romanian roots are accused of libel and slander against public figures.

In her statements, the accused referred, inter alia, to information that she wants to have received in 2011, partly directly and partly over others from Gunther Krichbaum's ex-wife. In 2017, however, she had denied ever talking to the defendant or asking for information. Now she is to be heard as a witness. Until the next hearing on April 17, judges, public prosecutors and defense attorneys will also have to read hundreds of pages of Facebook posts along with other documents.

Read more on Saturday, March 16, in the "Pforzheimer Zeitung" or in the e-paper on PZ-news or on the apps on iPhone / iPad and Android smartphones / tablet PCs.

German:

"I am a giveaway." About the consequences of an adoption

Last summer, writer and poet Eke Mannink published her debut novel "This is how I get over you," about the consequences of an adoption. Her own, that is. The intention was to put an end to a long story, it was a new beginning.

First I came - from a children's home in Nijmegen. About a year later, my brother Robert - from the Roman Catholic transit house Moederheil in Breda - arrived. Not my biological brother. Together we grew up with the parents who adopted us, on the edge of a village in the Veluwe.

New story

I wrote a novel about my adoption. I had never realized how many consequences that would have, until now, now that I am on the train and on my way to my brother's biological mother. If I had not written my book, I would never make this trip. Then I would not have known that my brother had become a father and got to know his real mother. I would not even have known that he is no longer alive. I had thought: I will make a point with this book. But it turned out to be the start of a new story.

This combination of file photos provided on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, by the Bucks County District Attorney's Office shows Sara Packer, left, and Jacob Sullivan. Sullivan pleaded guilty Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, to first-degree murder in the 2016 death of 14-year-old Grace Packer. Sullivan pleaded guilty to all charges in Grace's death, setting up the penalty phase of his trial that opened Friday, March 15, 2019, in Doylestown. (Courtesy photos | For lehighvalleylive.com)AP

Funnel cloud in Santo, Texas

A Pennsylvania man should be put to death for killing and dismembering his girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter as part of a rape-murder fantasy he and the teen’s mother shared, a prosecutor said Friday.

This combination of file photos provided on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, by the Bucks County District Attorney's Office shows Sara Packer, left, and Jacob Sullivan. Sullivan pleaded guilty Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, to first-degree murder in the 2016 death of 14-year-old Grace Packer. Sullivan pleaded guilty to all charges in Grace's death, setting up the penalty phase of his trial that opened Friday, March 15, 2019, in Doylestown. (Courtesy photos | For lehighvalleylive.com)AP

A Pennsylvania man should be put to death for killing and dismembering his girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter as part of a rape-murder fantasy he and the teen’s mother shared, a prosecutor said Friday.

2Doc: Girl in return

Imagine that as a child, you cannot ground in your adoptive family. What are your rights?

2Doc: Girl in Return shows the personal consequences of the current international adoption system through the eyes of Amy, an adopted teenage girl.

2Doc: Girl in return

Wednesday 13 March at 20.55 on NPO2

A case has been registered under relevant sections of child trafficking under the Juvenile Justice Act against the four accused at Panchgani police station

A couple from the city are among the four arrested by the Panchgani police for child trafficking. The couple was attempting to buy a newborn baby.

According to the police, Rajesh Chaurasia (40), the father of the child, had developed an illicit relationship with a 23-year-old woman, the mother of the child. He tried to pressurise her into abandoning the baby on delivery, but when she refused, he decided to sell the child. He was introduced to the couple by a woman, who runs a school in Panchgani. The couple was scheduled to leave for Muscat after buying the child.

A case has been registered under relevant sections of child trafficking under the Juvenile Justice Act against the four accused at Panchgani police station. The four accused, including Chaurasia, the woman who runs a school, and the couple who was to buy the child, are currently in police custody.

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