NEW LEGISLATION THAT would allow for the exhumations of bodies at former mother and baby homes must include as many sites as possible, Catherine Corless has said.

Corless is among those attending a meeting of the Oireachtas Children’s Committee today to discuss the legislation.

The Commission of Investigation was set up following claims that up to 800 babies were interred in an unmarked mass grave at a former Bon Secours home in Tuam, Co Galway – following extensive research done by Corless.

Excavations carried out between November 2016 and February 2017 found a significant quantity of human remains, aged from 35 foetal weeks to two to three years, interred in a vault on the site.

The General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials Bill was published in December 2019 and new Heads of Bills were approved by the government on 12 January 2021 – the day the Commission’s final report was published.

A TWISTED doctor allegedly snatched a baby boy from his homeless mum and flogged him off to a rich couple for £4,000 in India, says a report.

The medic and his two accomplices reportedly snatched the four-month-old from his traumatised mum after trawling Mumbai slums for victims.

The baby was taken from his mum in a slum, Mumbai, India (stock photo)

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The baby was taken from his mum in a slum, Mumbai, India (stock photo)Credit: Alamy

The prosecution requested the death penalty for the mother-in-law of Wool, who was arrested for murder and convicted of killing Jeong In after 16 months of age abuse.

The 13th Criminal Division of the Seoul Southern District Court held a trial of resolution on Jang Yang, who was handed over to the trial on charges of murder today (14th).

The prosecution requested the death penalty from Jang, and asked the court to sentence them to a 10-year order to restrict employment in children's institutions, 30 years to attach electronic devices, and five years to order probation.

In addition, Ahn Mo, his adoptive father, who was prosecuted with Jang for violating the Child Welfare Act, was asked for 7 years and 6 months in prison and an order to restrict employment related to children for 10 years.

The prosecution explained the reason for the sentence, saying, "(Mr. Jang) has a responsibility to be responsible as a mother. .

Salem Town All-Women police on Tuesday arrested a couple and a businessman in a case of illegal “adoption” of a seven-year old girl.

According to the police, the parents Sumathi and Sathish were launderers and worked out of a corner shop at Annamalai Nagar in Salem. They had two daughters and a son. Worsening financial constraints allegedly forced the couple to illegally give their seven-year-old second daughter in adoption recently to Krishnan, a businessman from the same colony. Ms. Sumathi’s mother Chinnaponnu opposed this and asked her to bring the child back.

However, the couple refused to do so. Based on Ms. Chinnaponnu’s complaint, the police and Childline members rescued the girl from the businessman here, the police said. The police have registered a case under various sections of the Juvenile Justice Act and are investigating.

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He arrived at the orphanage when he was only one year old, later adopted by a family from Ungheni, and now, after

43 years old, looking for his biological family. It is the story of Larisa Iurii who tries to gather the few pieces of

puzzle he has about his life until adoption to find his mother and siblings. With the hope that

maybe someone will recognize her, the woman asks for people's help, so she can know the one who gave her

life.

When she saw him through the window of an Omaha hotel lobby, her eyes welled up with tears. There he was, a man with a silhouette just like her boyfriend’s decades ago. A minute later, Kathleen Chafin hugged her son, Tom Rouse, for the first time in her life.

“It made me alive again,” Chafin recalled in an interview with The Washington Post, crying as she remembered the meeting in August 2015. “He took my hand, held it firmly, and he never let go the whole time. Just seeing him, oh my.”

Chafin had spent decades searching for a son she says she never wanted to give up for adoption. When they finally did meet, her years of despair turned into anger at the Catholic Church and one of its priests, who she alleges manipulated her and then removed her son from a hospital room 50 years ago.

Chafin has filed a federal lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Omaha and the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus, alleging on Wednesday that a Jesuit priest named Thomas Halley forced her to give her son up for adoption. She’s seeking $10 million for damages and relief.

Neither Catholic organization immediately responded to requests for comment late Monday. But when Chafin first raised concerns about the adoption in 2015, an investigation from the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus concluded that Halley operated within the law and that his actions were “born of a desire to avoid scandal and find good homes for babies of unwed mothers,” the Omaha World-Herald reported.

Danish children for adoption overtake foreign in number. Most couples stay on the international waiting list.

For the first time in many years, there are more Danish than foreign children for adoption.

Figures from the National Board of Appeal show that 40 children born in Denmark were adopted in 2020.

In comparison, 23 adopted children came here from abroad, which is a record few.

This has led the National Board of Appeal to offer couples and singles who are on a waiting list for a foreign child to move to the list of Danish children.

Dozens of letters sent to the Taoiseach reveal the deep pain felt by many survivors of mother and baby homes who are still denied access to information about who they are.

Some 50 people contacted Micheál Martin after the publication of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.

Many of those called on the Government to urgently publish a bill that would give them access to their birth certs and other personal information.

Children's minister Roderic O'Gorman had initially indicated that a tracing and information bill would be brought to Cabinet by the end of March, however, legal issues have delayed this and it is now expected that this will discussed by ministers in the coming weeks.

One person who contacted the Taoiseach said that there are thousands of people who are seeking to "fill in at least some of the banks" about who they are.

Student Danai Deblaere is the daughter of an Indian adopted child. She knows well how difficult it is to grow up in a white world where no one looks like you. The problems that arise as a result can be avoided by banning intercountry adoption, she writes.

22November 1976, Daisy, a two year old Indian girl arrives at Zaventem. She was adopted by a Belgian family with a great desire to have children, which unfortunately cannot be fulfilled in a natural way. Daisy's adoptive parents already have one biological daughter but they want to expand their family.

Daisy comes from a Missionaries for Charity orphanage in Mumbai. Daisy's adoptive parents search for their adopted child among the arrived children. They don't find her immediately. The child in the photo that they received from adoption agency De Joyzaaiers is nowhere to be found.

In the end, only one child remained of all adopted children: Daisy. She was not the girl in the photo, but she turned out to be the adopted child of the family in question. Daisy was two years old, but she looked much younger. Besides, she was not healthy. An extra day in India could have killed her.

Fortunately, Daisy didn't die, otherwise I wouldn't be able to write this opinion piece. Because I am her daughter.

NEW DELHI: The Centre has told the Delhi HC that foreigners registered

as OCI (overseas citizens of India) cardholders because of their marriage

to Indian nationals cease to enjoy that status after their divorce.

Defending one such decision, the MHA informed the HC that the move of

the Indian embassy in Brussels, Belgium, asking a Belgian woman to