Sri Lanka acknowledges the existence of 'baby alarms' in the 1980s and started investigation

TODAY, 20 September 2017

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Sri Lanka acknowledges that there were baby farms in the country in the 1980s, or places where women were conceiving to meet the need for adoptable children. That's what the Sri Lankan health minister said in the [Dutch] Zembla television show .

It is for the first time that the Sri Lankan government admits that the baby farms existed. The stories about baby farms were always dismissed as rumors. Minister Senaratne now says that its existence was the reason to stop international adoption in 1987.

ZEMBLA onthult: Sri Lanka erkent bestaan 'babyfarms' voor adoptie

20 SEPTEMBER 2017

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Het bestaan van zogeheten ‘babyfarms’ was voor de regering van Sri Lanka in 1987 de belangrijkste reden om tijdelijk te stoppen met interlandelijke adoptie. Op babyfarms werden vrouwen zwanger gemaakt om aan de vraag naar adoptiekinderen te kunnen voldoen. Dat erkent de Sri Lankaanse minister van Volksgezondheid, dr. Rajitha Senaratne, naar aanleiding van onderzoek van ZEMBLA. “Er waren toen veel babyfarms,” aldus de minister. “Ze verzamelden daar de baby’s en verkochten ze aan buitenlanders voor adoptie.” Het is voor het eerst dat de Sri Lankaanse regering het bestaan van ‘babyfarms’ toegeeft. De verhalen over ‘babyfarms’ werden eerder afgedaan als geruchten.

Naar aanleiding van de bevindingen van ZEMBLA start Sri Lanka een onderzoek naar de fraude rond de adopties van duizenden kinderen die in de jaren ‘80 vanuit Sri Lanka naar Nederland zijn gehaald. Ook neemt minister Senaratne het initiatief tot het oprichten van een DNA-bank waar zowel kinderen als ouders op zoek kunnen naar hun bloedverwanten. (ZEMBLA: ‘Adoptiebedrog – Deel 2’, woensdag 20 september om 21.15 uur bij BNNVARA op NPO2)

ZEMBLA onthult: Sri Lanka erkent bestaan 'babyfarms' voor adoptie

20 SEPTEMBER 2017

LEESTIJD: 4 MINUTEN

Het bestaan van zogeheten ‘babyfarms’ was voor de regering van Sri Lanka in 1987 de belangrijkste reden om tijdelijk te stoppen met interlandelijke adoptie. Op babyfarms werden vrouwen zwanger gemaakt om aan de vraag naar adoptiekinderen te kunnen voldoen. Dat erkent de Sri Lankaanse minister van Volksgezondheid, dr. Rajitha Senaratne, naar aanleiding van onderzoek van ZEMBLA. “Er waren toen veel babyfarms,” aldus de minister. “Ze verzamelden daar de baby’s en verkochten ze aan buitenlanders voor adoptie.” Het is voor het eerst dat de Sri Lankaanse regering het bestaan van ‘babyfarms’ toegeeft. De verhalen over ‘babyfarms’ werden eerder afgedaan als geruchten.

Naar aanleiding van de bevindingen van ZEMBLA start Sri Lanka een onderzoek naar de fraude rond de adopties van duizenden kinderen die in de jaren ‘80 vanuit Sri Lanka naar Nederland zijn gehaald. Ook neemt minister Senaratne het initiatief tot het oprichten van een DNA-bank waar zowel kinderen als ouders op zoek kunnen naar hun bloedverwanten. (ZEMBLA: ‘Adoptiebedrog – Deel 2’, woensdag 20 september om 21.15 uur bij BNNVARA op NPO2)

TWO women were charged yesterday for allegedly stealing a three-month-old boy from his parents and selling him to another person in Barangay Poblacion, Danao City. Chief Insp. Gerard Ace Pelare, city police commander, said they filed kidnapping and child trafficking charges against Jessica Secretaria Besabella, 46, and Kimjean Bating, 20. The boy was brought by his father Jimmy along with his older sibling in Danao City last Friday night to beg for alms. Bating was the contact of Besabella, who was looking for a child for adoption. Besabella promised to pay P25,000. Bating was first caught by the boy’s father, Jimmy, and Roy Entero, who helped the former in chasing the trisikad carrying the suspect and the boy last Saturday night. She was turned over to the police, then an entrapment followed. Besabella was contacted by Banting, who informed her that she had the baby with her. They agreed to meet outside the Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Parish, where Besabella was arrested. The suspects reportedly met in Cebu City. Child trafficking is punishable under Republic Act 10384, or the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012. The law states that the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, adoption or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation or when the adoption is induced by any form of consideration for exploitative purposes shall also be considered as ‘trafficking in persons.’” (KAL) Published in the SunStar Cebu newspaper on September 20, 2017. Latest issues of SunStar Cebu also available on your mobile phones, laptops, and tablets. Subscribe to our digital editions at epaper.sunstar.com.ph and get a free seven-day trial.

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John Tufts says he’s innocent of the horrific child abuse crime that landed him in the Denton County Jail in October 2016. He spoke to the Dallas Observer while standing in front of the courthouse Monday morning, where he was to appear in Judge Brody Shanklin’s 211th District Court.

Tufts’ 5-year-old adopted daughter, who came from Poland, claimed a bad guy “hurt my vagina and booty and they make it red” but refused to identify him, according to Tufts’ arrest warrant affidavit.

Instead, she simply told the therapist her attacker was a monster and “I don’t want to talk about the bad guy.”

“She never said I was the monster,” Tufts says. “She said the guy in Poland did it to her.”

The Child Advocacy Resources and Evaluation Team at Cook Children’s Hospital investigated and determined that the child had been abused in the United States and was at risk for more abuse if she returned to home. Police charged Tufts with injury to a child — serious bodily injury, a second-degree felony, claiming in the affidavit that he “intentionally and knowingly caused injury to [the child] by inserting a Barbie doll into her vaginal and anal area.” Tufts’ wife, Georgiana, who is now estranged, was also charged with the felony crime.

Born in the midst of a violent African war, Michaela DePrince overcame her past to become one of the world's most famous ballerinas.

Michaela DePrince is the embodiment of what it means to fight for your dream. The 2017 TODAY Style Hero wouldn't let anything stop her from becoming a professional ballerina: not her childhood, race or vitiligo.

Without knowing her violent past, it might be hard for anyone to imagine that ballet dancer Michaela DePrince was once a hopeless orphan, nicknamed "the Devil's Child" because of the white dots that freckled her dark skin.

After all, the grace with which she pliés and pirouettes across world-class stages is a sharp contrast to a childhood marked by murder and fear.

"The only way I could survive was ... to prove everybody wrong," Michaela, today a dancer for the Dutch National Ballet, told NBC News.

Adoptions, Vice President Cai remains in his place. The Tar rejects the appeal against the appointment of Laura Laera

Adoptions, Vice President Cai remains in his place. The Tar rejects the appeal against the appointment of Laura Laera

JUSTICE & PUNISHMENT

Former Vice President Della Monica and some couples appealed to the nomination act complaining of illegitimacy, potential conflict of interest, and the risk that controlled controls might blow. Judges do not even make any assumptions. The story will be discussed on the merit but Laera remains: "The program will be able to continue." She speaks of collegial commitment: "I want to reunite the Cai once a month"

by Thomas Mackinson | September 16, 2017

Adoptions, Vice President Cai remains in his place. The Tar rejects the appeal against the appointment of Laura Laera

Adoptions, Vice President Cai remains in his place. The Tar rejects the appeal against the appointment of Laura Laera

JUSTICE & PUNISHMENT

Former Vice President Della Monica and some couples appealed to the nomination act complaining of illegitimacy, potential conflict of interest, and the risk that controlled controls might blow. Judges do not even make any assumptions. The story will be discussed on the merit but Laera remains: "The program will be able to continue." She speaks of collegial commitment: "I want to reunite the Cai once a month"

by Thomas Mackinson | September 16, 2017

Mumbai: A major IT firm along with Maharashtra Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) is building a tool for storage of DNA profile of criminals to help police investigations dealing serious crimes against women and children. Maharashtra will be the first Indian state to start DNA database which will also help law enforcement agencies in tracking maoists as well as terrorists besides repeat offenders.

A senior IPS officer has confirmed the development and added that Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is yet to happen in this regard. “The IT firm is preparing a tool for DNA profiling. The DNA profiling is a very strong evidence because it will lead to quicker arrest of repeat offenders and exoneration of innocent suspects. This DNA profiling will also help increasing the conviction rate, which is alarmingly low at present in India,” the IPS officer told the Free Press Journal.

Almost all developed countries including the USA, Canada, Australia, UK, NZ as well as majority of the European countries have DNA database. Even the China has started preparing DNA database for criminals.

“We are trying to build DNA fingerprint tool – a complete software platform – along with FSL for storage of fingerprint and matching of DNA fingerprinting data. We are trying to build that system in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode with FSL. It will be useful eventually in increasing conviction rate. In developed countries there is fingerprinting database and the rate of conviction is as high as 70 to 80 percent. In India the conviction rate is very low (hardly 15-30 percent). In India, currently, the DNA bill has yet not been presented in Parliament but we believe that even if the Bill comes we will need a system so that the Bill can be implemented smoothly,” said Abhay Jere, Associate Vice-President of the IT firm.

The MoU will happen with Maharashtra government and the funding will be done by the Central Government. The project has been submitted before Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the MoU is likely to happen very soon as the documents have been sent to Additional Chief Secretary of Maharashtra government for approval. “There is very high possibility that the central government’s CSIR might support it because we have already cleared two rounds of evaluation and they are waiting for this MoU to happen to take the discussion forward,” Jere said.

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