It observed that trafficking in human beings is a multi-layered phenomena that can take different forms and occur in various industries.

The Crime Branch of Delhi Police in February last year busted a child trafficking racket following a tip off and recovered a 10-day-old old baby from Jahangir's possession. (Photo: Representational)

New Delhi: A court here has ordered framing of charges against seven people for allegedly abducting children, including newborns, and selling them.

It observed that trafficking in human beings is a multi-layered phenomena that can take different forms and occur in various industries.

"There common characteristic is the element of constraint, deceit, threat, fraud, coercion, etc. used with an aim to economically and/or sexually exploit one or other persons and besides that there are other, less widely known forms of trafficking," Additional Sessions Judge Anil Antil said.

The Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veterans' Affairs and Social Affairs announced that the procedure of this adoption will be continued, because "based on monitoring the course of mutual adjustment of the child and potential adopters, it was assessed that concrete adoption is in his best interest."

- The interest of the child and respect for the law is the only thing that the competent institutions are guided by, and public pressure cannot have an influence on that - the ministry announced. They accused the child's foster parent of obstructing the process.

Serbian children are adopted by foreigners

The Ministry states that about 10 percent of all children eligible for adoption in Serbia are adopted by foreigners, and that Sweden and the United States are in the lead. During the last 10 years:

- 60 children went to Sweden

Iranian media on Wednesday reported that police in Tehran have arrested three people for selling babies online for adoption.

Hossein Rahimi, Chief of Tehran Police, on Wednesday said the Cyberspace Police found out about the scheme and after surveillance arrested three for the crime. At the time of their arrest, the accused had two new-born babies with them. According to Rahimi the babies were sold for around $1,000.

According to the website of the state-run television (IRIB), one of the men arrested said he took the babies from families who couldn't afford raising the children. He sold them to families who wanted to adopt, he said.

Sale of babies for illegal adoption is not too uncommon in Iran. There are always many babies who are abandoned at birth as a result of poverty or because they are born out of wedlock. Abortion is illegal and since a few years ago the state has scraped all family planning programs due to the religious establishment's fear of declining population.

But what creates the demand for babies through illegal channels is the small number of children available for legal adoption and the complexity of the process. Islamic laws make the process of legal adoption and even in-vitro fertilization (IVF) extremely complicated and sometimes even impossible. Adopting parents must meet certain requirements dictated by Islamic laws in addition to the regular legal, financial and other requirements for adoption. These requirements are enforced by the state.

Two Haitian adoptees found their biological family in Haiti through a DNA project. In both cases, the children in the 1980s appear not to have been consciously given up for adoption. Their biological family has never stopped looking for them ever since.

Nieuwsuur last year investigated adoptions from Haiti and found that on the Caribbean island many parents have given their children to Catholic nuns, who promised them that the children would be educated and fed and then return to their families. But after a while the children turned out to have been adopted abroad.

Volunteers from Plan Kiskeya collected DNA from relatives of missing children in the town of Jacmel in May last year. So two DNA matches have now emerged from that meeting. One of them is Louis Wietzes who came to the Netherlands in 1988. "I never had much need to find my biological family. My adoptive parents had been told that my mother couldn't take good care of me and had taken me to an orphanage. I didn't know what a search would bring me."

Dumbfounded

This will change when Wietzes lands on the Plan Kiskeya website in April. "I looked around a bit on that website and suddenly saw my own Haitian surname on the photo of a woman looking for her son, whose first name matched one of my first names. Only the place of birth was wrong."

Film The Lost Son - November 8

Arierang November 7, 2016

Guestion and we invite members of your organization for the preview of the documentary The Lost Son on November 18 next in Amsterdam. The film is about an adopted Dutch boy who has been looking for his Chinese parents as a young adult in recent years. http://www.thelostson.eu/

The preview will take place in Pakhuis de Zwijger in A'dam and will start at 7.30 pm . Then there is a forum discussion with, among others, adoption scientist René Hoksbergen and a representative of Terre Des Hommes.

We organize this preview especially for adoptees and their parents. For that reason, admission is free. Every visitor must register personally on the Pakhuis de Zwijger site. https://dezwijger.nl/programma/de-verloren-zoon

Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

The operation was carried out at the so-called “baby factory” in the Mowe area of the southwestern Ogun state on Tuesday.

“Acting on a tip-off, our men stormed the illegal maternity home and rescued 10 people, including four kids and six women, four of whom are pregnant,” police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi told AFP news agency.

He said the women told police that the owner hired men to impregnate them and then sell the newborns for profit.

The “factories” are usually small illegal facilities parading as private medical clinics that house pregnant women and offer their babies for sale.

The police said that a case of kidnapping was registered at South Campus police station on October 22.

“The gang members used to visit private IVF centres/hospitals and collected details of childless couples.

After the IVF procedure had also failed for such couple, they lured them into buying babies stating that the adoption process through legal means may be lengthy and complicated. The entire gang has confessed to selling more babies, some of which have complicity of the biological parents of the babies also,” said a senior police officer.

A woman filed a complaint that she was sitting at Moti Bagh Gurdwara. In the meantime, a woman came to her and started a conversation and she offered her to take care of her son. She handed over her son to that woman and went to the gate of gurdwara to take meal. When she returned, she did not find her son. The woman was also not there. An FIR was registered into the matter.

Police teams were formed to trace the child. Eight people, including women were arrested. During interrogation, accused Gopal alias Pankaj disclosed that he is graduate from Delhi University. He was working as a property dealer but earnings were insufficient.

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Following a local court’s directive, the Gurugram police on Tuesday booked a private doctor and a couple for the alleged illegal adoption of a newborn.

The doctor who runs a clinic in Sector 56 and mediated the adoption has been booked along with the couple under relevant Sections of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.

In her complaint, the child’s biological mother alleged that the police didn’t register a case and misbehaved with them. She then moved court and it directed the police to register an FIR. According to the complainant, she was in a consensual live-in relationship and had gone to the accused doctor during her pregnancy. She and her partner wanted to put the child up for adoption through an NGO.

“At first, the doctor refused to help but then introduced us to the couple. In July 2019, I gave birth to a child and they took it without completing the legal adoption formalities. When I tried contacting the couple, they stopped taking my calls and the doctor refused to intervene. Following which, I went to the police but they did not register a case and asked me to go to the court,” the complainant said.

“A case has been registered against the trio,” said police spokesperson Subhash Boken. — OC

Surat: It was borne out of their love, but sadly the foetus did not get its share of love from its unwilling parents. Born into the

world of deceit, the newborn was almost on the verge of being lost forever in the web of treachery had it not been saved by

Navsari’s District Child Protection Unit.

The baby was delivered by an unwed 18-year-old woman, who was cheated by her lover who deserted her after she became

pregnant.