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Strongsville-based European Adoption Consultants connected to disturbing child abuse case in Texas

Strongsville-based European Adoption Consultants connected to disturbing child abuse case in Texas

Mona Kosar Abdi

4:14 PM, May 9, 2017

5:05 PM, May 10, 2017

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio - Soliciting bribes, falsifying documents and adopting trafficked children, the accusations against European Adoption consultants keep piling up.

Leistet die Politik einer „Enteignung der Kinder“ Vorschub?

Leistet die Politik einer „Enteignung der Kinder“ Vorschub?

Von Sabine Menkens | Veröffentlicht am 09.05.2017 | Lesedauer: 6 Minuten

AUTOPLAY

Wenn Pflegekinder plötzlich zurück zu ihren leiblichen Eltern müssen, ist das für die Kleinen oft eine emotionale Katastrophe. Ein neues Gesetz soll die Kinder besser vor einer erzwungenen Rückkehr schützen.

Quelle: N24/ Eybe Ahlers

Part 3 on adoption fraud in Congo: "They wanted only girls Nobody wanted Jacques."

Part 3 on adoption fraud in Congo: "They wanted only girls Nobody wanted Jacques."

TEXT: KURT WERTELAERS PICTURE: THE BENOIT FREINE

8/05/17 - 07:00

"He's right!" If we show the pictures of the little Jacques we made three days earlier, start to dance the people of his native village and sing. © Benoit Freine.

VIDEO "I was already in the car, but I forgot my sandals. I have them go get quickly into the orphanage. When I walked out, I saw driving away the car. It's my fault, I should never have forgotten my sandals . I miss my friends a lot. " But it was not the little Jacques debt (7). He just did not fit the profile of adoption. While his real parents 850 kilometers from Kinshasa did not know where their child, Jacques remained in the orphanage.

ADOPTION FRAUD IN CONGO (2) A VISIT TO THE BIOLOGICAL PARENTS

"Dear girls, we miss you so. Your home is here "

ADOPTION FRAUD IN CONGO (2) A VISIT TO THE BIOLOGICAL PARENTS

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TEXT: KURT WERTELAERS

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Adoption Fraud: Congo abducted children end up as "ophans" in Belgium

Adoption Fraud: Congo abducted children end up as "ophans" in Belgium

At least three Congolese 'orphans' who were adopted in our country, have biological parents in their home country. They were kidnapped and placed in an orphanage where they were given false names. The Belgian adoptive parents are oblivious and never knew that their children - Samira, Zakiatu and Jaelle - were stolen from their families. Our reporters searched and found the biological parents in the Congolese bush. The first episode today reads exceptionally free, the rest of the series on Saturday in Het Laatste Nieuws and HLN +.

KURT WERTELAERS BENOIT AND THE FREINE IN CONGO May 5, 2017

When the DRC halted foreign adoptions in 2013 - after far too many stories of abuse - if no child have left the country. At that time, however, there were dozens of adoptions pending. Also in our country. They then tried to filter out fraudulent records - at least that was the intention - and after a long, grueling process, and more than two years of waiting in November 2015 came a dozen Congolese orphans still in our country.

Those children were all from Tumaini orphanage in Kinshasa, an institution run by the Belgian-Congolese Julienne Mpemba (40) from Namur. Since 2012 she had been thirty Congolese orphans linked to adoptive parents in our country. "Never had any problems," she would explain about it. Mpemba incidentally earned thousands of euros to the temporary stop of adoption. "If you want them to be taken care of, you have to pay for it," she told the adoptive parents. "They are your children."

Belgium/Congo ADOPTION FRAUD - Parliamentary Question Parys

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5/05/17 - 13u48 Source: Belga© Belga.

ADOPTION FRAUD

Why still working with the Congolese Tumaini orphanage and the Belgian-Congolese Julienne Mpemba while Congolese human rights organizations and Interpol already in 2013 possessed information that brought both in connection with the abduction of young children in 2015? That Flemish parliament Lorin Parys (N-VA) wants to know from Minister for Family Jo Vandeurzen (CD & V).

Parys filed Friday in parliament a request for explanation after the news had become known that at least three Congolese "orphans" that were adopted in our country have biological parents in their home country. Those kids came in 2015 in our country through the Tumaini orphanage was run by Julienne Mpemba. They became associated in 2013 with the disappearance and abduction of small children, last year she was arrested in our country but released pending trial.

"No indication of irregularities in adoptions in Flanders"

"No indication of irregularities in adoptions in Flanders"

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Adoption Notice: Adoption Service Provider Accreditation/Approval Expiration or Relinquishment

Adoption Notice: Adoption Service Provider Accreditation/Approval Expiration or Relinquishment

May 5, 2017

The Council on Accreditation (COA) reports that the following agencies did not seek renewal of accreditation or approval, did not achieve renewal before their accreditation/approval expired and have a pending application, or voluntarily relinquished their accreditation or approval between January 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017.

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Children taken from their families in Congo were adopted in Belgium

At least three Congolese children, declared as orphans and adopted in Belgium, still have biological parents in their country of origin. After being kidnapped, they were taken to an orphanage in Kinshasa where they were given false names, Het Laatste Nieuws reported on Friday. The adoptive parents knew nothing.
 

The federal prosecutor's office discovered that the children, who arrived in Belgium in 2015, had been kidnapped. They were given other identities and dates of birth, even though they were not intended for adoption at all.

Reporters from the newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws went looking for the biological parents and found them. They explained that they had the opportunity to send their offspring to a camp, through a youth organization, from which they never returned. Defrauded, the parents had no money to pay a lawyer and were also unable to count on help from the local authorities. According to journalists, it appears that some high-ranking local officials are involved in the trafficking or have at least decided to turn a blind eye.

When the authorities learned that reporters were looking into the case, they were questioned for three days, before being released after the intervention of the Belgian embassy.

The kidnapped children came from the orphanage of Julienne Mpemba, a Belgian-Congolese lawyer from Namur who previously appeared on a PS list during the elections. The person concerned was arrested last year in Belgium, but was released by the indictment chamber after a month and a half awaiting trial.

Adoption Notice: Update on Communication with European Adoption Consultants, Inc.

Adoption Notice: Update on Communication with European Adoption Consultants, Inc.

May 3, 2017

The Office of Children’s Issues is aware that some former EAC clients who followed the instructions in the April 6 Notice have had their correspondence to EAC returned with no forwarding address identified. The Ohio Attorney General’s Office confirmed to the Office of Children’s Issues on May 1, 2017, that individuals whose letters to EAC are returned may wish to submit the correspondence to the agency’s registered agent: John A. Carbone Co. LPA, 614 West Superior Avenue, Suite 800, Cleveland OH 44113. This information is publicly available on the Ohio Secretary of State’s website.

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