A Swiss couple living in Nicaragua have been told to give back the baby daughter they adopted nine months ago.
Daniel and Esther Schär, who work for an NGO in the Central American country, adopted a two-month old girl through the adoption service of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Families (Mifamilia) last year, reported the Nicaraguan press.
Nine months later, the child’s biological mother – a minor – demanded her daughter be returned to her, claiming she was put up for adoption without her consent.
Last week a court ruled in her favour, to the heartbreak of the Swiss couple.
“We don’t understand how they can do such a nasty thing as take away the baby... if the biological mother abandoned her why does she now want her back when she didn’t seek her out for nine months?” adoptive mother Esther Schär told El Nuevo Diario.