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Ambassador wonders: How can Ethiopia be a living hell? Ethiopian Ambassador is surprised that Denmark will not let Amy visit her native country Dorrit Saietz Journalist Ethiopia is a country with 94 million people living a decent life Woinshet Tadesse, Ethiopia's ambassador to the Nordic countries In Stockholm sits Ethiopia's ambassador to the Nordic countries, a woman named Woinshet Tadesse, and wonders deeply about what is going on in Denmark. Why the authorities will not allow a young girl to visit his family and attend as a witness in a completely lawful civil lawsuit? "It is up to the Court to decide what is best for the child in this whole situation, and they want to hear Amy's testimony," said Ambassador Woinshet Tadesse. "Therefore, it is very unfortunate that she will not be allowed to travel to Ethiopia." "We always work from the child. If she wants to go Ethiopia and visit her parents and family, perfect. If she'd rather be in Denmark, it is also fine," she says. But there is a real risk that she may be held back in Ethiopia? "We cannot anticipate the Court's decision. If the Court decides to overturn the adoption, so it's up to Amy and her mother to decide if she should stay in Ethiopia or in Denmark. There no authority will interfere in the matter - it's her biological mother, and she is alive. And she has clearly stated that she has no interest in keeping Amy back in Ethiopia, "said Woinshet Tadesse. Even if this happens, she finds a private lawyer's claim that it would be a disaster and "a living hell" for Amy to stay in Ethiopia, completely wrong. "Ethiopia is a country with 94 million people living a decent life, including this lawyer. How can it be 'a living hell' and why it is so even long-term - it is because he has not been adopted? It's embarrassing, "she says. But what about the many poor people in Ethiopia - or the orphans? "There is poverty in many places, not only in Ethiopia. Even in the United States is poor. Poverty is not a disease, and we have made many advances through development. Over the last decade, poverty is halved and children are far better schooling and health, "she says. Woinshet Tadesse find it perfectly normal and natural that Amy will visit his country and his family. "That's her right. Here in Sweden I know of several families who have adopted children from Ethiopia, who take the children to visit their families and their country. You cannot break the bond with their biological families and parents. "

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Two Spanish couples should return their adopted children in Ethiopia by bureaucratic problems

Two Spanish couples should return their adopted children in Ethiopia for alleged forgery of a signature by the director of the orphanage. They are trapped in the country living in a hotel.

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A Brazilian couple has given a whole new meaning to the term sister-wife.

Adriana, 39, and husband Leandro, 37 – who didn't want to reveal their surnames – have been together for seven years and have a 6-year-old daughter. Now, thanks to a shocking revelation on a radio show, the happily married pair found out that they are even closer than they thought – like brother and sister close.

The two had both spent their lives searching for their respective mothers, both named Maria, and had both been abandoned when they were still babies. Seeking some closure on the issue, Adriana went on Radio Globo's “The Time Is Now” program, which specializes in finding lost relatives, and was reunited with her birth mother.

During the heartfelt reunion, the mother also revealed that Adriana also has a younger brother and guess who that was? That’s right, it’s Adriana’s husband, Leandro.

Obviously, shocked by the news of her incestuous marriage, Adriana broke down on the set and began to cry uncontrollably.

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court order, asking the crime branch to probe the Mankhurd shelter home case has come as a major victory for those who had brought the incident to light. The staff members, however, allege that they have been mentally tortured and threatened ever since they wrote the letter narrating the incident on December 31, 2012.

Nine months ago, TOI first reported about the letter from the staff of Home for Mentally Deficient Children, run by the Children’s Aid Society (CAS), an NGO funded by the state. It complained of a New Year’s Eve party for mentally challenged children, which involved Champagne and bar dancers.

Activist Sangeeta Punekar filed a PIL on the matter in the Bombay high court. On Wednesday, the court directed the crime branch to probe the matter and slammed the authorities at the home, noting that the offence fell within the purview of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. If the inquiry finds that the offence has been committed, the court ordered action against the perpetrators. To date, though, it has been a case of shooting the messenger.

Staff members say they have been shunted out of the home, mentally tortured and denied leave. “We continued to work under those who perpetrated the offence. A children’s welfare officer was transferred, and the newly appointed officer has been pressurizing the children not to talk of the incident,” said an employee. Two employees were transferred to other institutions without being given any reasons for their transfer. Some say they were harassed at every instance, served memos over trivial matters and denied leave, even when members of their family were ill.

Sharad Dave, honorary treasurer, Children’s Aid Society, who supported the staffers, found that he too, was ostracized, threatened and accused of “leaking” the letter to TOI. “At a meeting of the CAS in the chamber of the minister for women and child development at Mantralaya, an officer indicted in the staff letter accused me of leaking the matter to TOI, and asked for an inquiry against me,” said Dave.

U.S. Adoption Executive Pleads Guilty to Ethiopia Scam

by Naharnet Newsdesk 4 hours ago

A former executive with a U.S.-based international adoption agency which sought to connect American families with Ethiopian children has admitted fraud, a U.S. Justice Department statement said Wednesday.

Alisa Bivens, the former foreign program director of International Adoption Guides Inc. (IAG), an adoption agency in North and South Carolina, pleaded guilty to bribing foreign officials and submitting fraudulent documents to the U.S. State Department regarding adoptions from Ethiopia.

Bivens, 42, and other co-conspirators, filed false documentation including contracts of adoption signed by orphanages in Ethiopia even though some of the children had never stayed in nor been cared for by the orphanages involved.

Brussels woman finds mother after being kidnapped 30 years ago

Child was stolen out of bed

A 34-year-old Brussels woman was kidnapped 30 years ago from Guatemala and sold by her kidnapper to a Flemish couple for adoption, local police said. Dolores Maria Praet was four when her mother was forced to give her up for adoption because she was too poor to look after her, according to the official story. Her adoptive parents paid $2,800 (€2,100) to arrange the adoption through official channels.

In 2011, Praet travelled to Guatemala in search of her birth mother, who authorities confirmed was Rosario Colop. She had moved away from her village, but a neighbour heard Dolores’ story and found it strange: Colop had never had a daughter, he said, though at the time in question, another child from a nearby village had been taken from her bed at night and never seen again.

Praet went to find the mother of the kidnapped child, Luisa Chim, and, according to the police report, became convinced she was her own mother. DNA analysis confirmed their suspicions: Praet was Chim’s missing daughter.

Judge Who Facilitated Guatemala Illegal Adoptions Finally Removed

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Detienen en Guatemala a mujer que vendió niña a una familia belga en 1984

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Rosario Colop Chim, una indígena de 56 años, es sindicada de secuestrar a la pequeña cuando tenía cuatro años, informaron las autoridades.

La mujer fue detenida en su hogar en un poblado del municipio de Catarina, del departamento (provincia) de San Marcos, 306 kilómetros al suroeste de la Ciudad de Guatemala, de acuerdo a la Policía Nacional Civil (PNC).

Responding to a PIL filed in the Bombay High Court earlier this month on wrongdoings at a home for mentally

deficient children in Mankhurd, the state government earlier this week admitted that an inquiry was underway,

and prima facie there seemed to be some truth in the allegations made in the PIL.

The PIL filed by one Sangeeta Punekar lists three incidents at the home - hosting a New Year party without prior

permission from the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on December 31, 2012 where more than 20 girls from the