Three years after it announced that it was pulling out of the work of caring for orphans up for adoption, a nun of Mother Teresa’s mission is charged with selling babies. What led to it?

~By Sujit Bhar

In an incident that sent shock waves across the country, two women associated with the Missionaries of Charity were arrested on July 5 by the police in Ranchi, selling babies. Sister Concilia Balsam and Anima Indwar, a helper-cum-social worker associated with the Ranchi chapter of the worldwide organisation, were held for selling three babies for Rs 50,000 each. Another baby was given away for “free”, reports said without giving any further details.

Sister N Prema, Mother Superior of the Missionaries of Charity, said in a press statement: “We are deeply saddened and grieved by the recent developments at Missionaries of Charity Home—Nirmal Hriday at East Jail Road, Ranchi… we wish to express regret and sorrow for what happened and desire to express in unequivocal terms our condemnation of individual actions which have nothing to do with the congregation of the Missionaries of Charity.”

However, trying to insulate the main organisation from the incidents and terming these as “individual actions”, seems nothing more than a search for a face-saver for the mission. A source who is in the know of developments at the mission told India Legal that following the death of Sister Nirmala, who was in charge after the passing away of Mother Teresa in 1997, not only has the overall discipline of the mission deteriorated, there has also been a rather steep fall in donations coming in from established international sources for the mission’s massive network.

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Xiao Chaohua, who lost her son outside a store in 2007, shows photos of wanted children on her van. Chinese children are kidnapped and sold for adoption - including Sweden.

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Adoption from other countries is down 80 percent since its peak. Why do we make this hard? America is pro-adoption; the State Department should be, too.

The State Department’s current anti-adoption polices are preventing Americans from becoming parents by opening their hearts and homes to orphans from around the world. These children are in desperate need of loving families, and tens of thousands of Americans are ready to adopt them. Yet intercountry adoption has fallen by nearly 80 percent since its peak in 2004.

This is not what was supposed to happen.

In April 2008, the United States joined the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, and the U.S. Department of State was given the mandate to improve the ability for the U.S. federal government to assist with intercountry adoptions. Unfortunately, the State Department’s mismanagement of its obligations under the convention has yielded disastrous results:  Children are far less safe, American parents are poorly served, and the Department of State has fractured relations with nearly every adoption stakeholder.

Why has intercountry adoption collapsed?

NCHS Data Brief No. 315, July 2018

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Data from the National Survey of Family Growth

NEW DELHI Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has ordered all states to immediately inspect child care homes run by the Mother Teresafounded Missionaries of Charity, in the wake of cases of alleged illegal adoptions carried out by its Jharkhand shelters. She also told them to ensure that all child care institutions are registered and linked to the country’s apex adoption body within a month. The child care home in Ranchi, which allegedly “sold” three children and “gave away” another recently, said it is ready for any kind of inspection.

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On the eve of monsoon session of Parliament, a controversy centred on an anti-trafficking draft Bill is gathering steam with even Congress MP Shashi Tharoor opposing the legislation in an official letter written to Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Women and Child Development.

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Baby-selling scandal: The Union government has instructed governments of all states to conduct immediate inspection of all childcare homes run by the Missionaries of Charity.By: FE Online | New Delhi | Updated: July 17, 2018 1:47 PM345SHARESSHARE missionaries of charityFILE PHOTO: Police stand outside a home which provides shelter for pregnant unmarried women run by the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic order founded by Mother Teresa, in Ranchi,Jharkhand on July 4, 2018. (REUTERS)Baby-selling scandal: The Union government has instructed governments of all states to conduct immediate inspection of all childcare homes run by the Missionaries of Charity (MoC), which is a Roman Catholic order founded by the late Mother Teresa. This comes days after authorities in Jharkhand had shut down a Missionaries of Charity home following the arrest of a nun and a worker for alleged baby-selling. The home provided shelter for pregnant and unmarried women.Here are the top developments in the scandal that has shocked the nation:– In a statement on Monday, Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said she had instructed states to ensure that all childcare institutions be registered and linked to the Central adoption authority within the next one month. “Taking cognizance of the recent cases of illegal adoptions carried out by Missionaries of Charity in Jharkhand, Maneka Gandhi has instructed the states to get childcare homes run by Missionaries of Charity all over the country inspected immediately,” the statement said.– On Tuesday, Gandhi said the Women and Child Development Ministry will amend the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act to make the district magistrates and collectors “competent officers” for approving adoptions, instead of courts. “We are bringing in an amendment to the JJ Act for making District Magistrate/Collector as the competent officer for approving adoptions, instead of courts,” Gandhi was tweeted as saying by the WCD ministry..– Reports of babies and children being sold by the charity-run homes and hospitals have appeared recently. It has been claimed by many campaigners that the illegal trafficking of babies and children is is driven by a long waiting list for adoption.

Police stand outside a home run by the Missionaries of Charity, in Ranchi, India.

Police stand outside a home run by the Missionaries of Charity, in Ranchi, India. Photograph: Reuters

India has ordered the immediate inspection of all childcare homes run by the Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic congregation established by Mother Teresa, after employees at one shelter were accused of selling babies for adoption.

The inspections were announced by the ministry for women and childhood development after a Missionaries of Charity home in Jharkhand state was shut this month following the arrest of a nun and a social worker employed there.

Sister Konsalia Balsa and social worker Anima Indwar were accused of having already sold three babies from the home, which provides shelter for pregnant, unmarried women.

After Alleged Illegal Adoptions Juvenile Justice Act Likely To Be AmendedNEW DELHI: The Women and Child Development Ministry is going to amend the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act to make the district magistrates and collectors "competent officers" for approving adoptions, instead of courts, Union minister Maneka Gandhi said today, days after cases of alleged illegal adoptions came to light in Jharkhand.

Ms Gandhi was speaking at a national conference of the ministers in-charge of the women and child development departments in all the states and Union territories here.

"We are bringing in an amendment to the Juvenile Justice Act for making District Magistrate/Collector as the competent officer for approving adoptions, instead of courts: Maneka Gandhi," the ministry said in a tweet.

Ms Gandhi, the Union Women and Child Development Minister, had yesterday directed the state governments to inspect all the child-care homes run by the Mother Teresa-founded Missionaries of Charity (MoC), after cases of alleged illegal adoptions carried out by one such homes in Ranchi came to light.

On July 5, the Jharkhand police had arrested a nun and an employee of the Ranchi-based organisation, run by the MoC, for allegedly "selling" a baby for Rs. 1.2 lakh.