Brabants echtpaar veroordeeld voor illegale adoptie

Een echtpaar uit Uden is door de rechtbank in Den Bosch veroordeeld voor illegale adoptie. Het in Spanje verblijvende stel moet 20.000 euro boete overmaken aan Unicef en krijgt een voorwaardelijke celstraf van 3 maanden.

Redactie 30-12-16, 15:46

Het paar woont al 3,5 jaar in Spanje met het kind en onttrekt zich zo aan het Nederlandse recht. Volgens de rechtbank heeft het er alle schijn van dat de twee de regels proberen te omzeilen bij de adoptie van een Roemeense baby: ,,Dit is buitengewoon laakbaar."

De straf komt bijna overeen met de eis van de Officier van Justitie. Die eiste twee weken geleden een boete van 30.000 euro die overgemaakt moest worden naar Unicef. De verdachten lieten zich toen vertegenwoordigen door een advocate. Het stel kan zelf niet meer internationaal reizen, omdat hun paspoorten zijn verlopen.

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DCOF-UNICEF ASSESSMENT OF “STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS TO PROTECT VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN CAMBODIA”

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report describes the outcomes of the joint DCOF/UNICEF visit to Cambodia to assess the three-year, DCOF-funded project on Strengthening Systems to Protect Vulnerable Children and Families in Cambodia. The assessment visit was carried out in May 2012, toward the end of the project (September 2012). 

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Adoptions in Australia fall to record low levels in 2016

Felicity Caldwell

Only 278 adoptions were finalised in the past year – the lowest number on record – according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

It was a fall of 5 per cent from the 292 adoptions in 2014-15 and of 74 per cent from the 1052 adoptions 25 years earlier, in 1991-92.

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Name: Axel Pouls

mobile 00 32 460767313

He said he had spoken with me already a few months ago, when he was asked to locate me.

Told him that was some 2 years ago.

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KOLKATA: CID officials investigating the baby trafficking racket operating from Kolkata and the two adjoining Parganas said they have now have proof that even adoption centres were part of the trafficking racket. CID sources said that among the 50 “workable” leads received so far from various complainants ever since the baby trafficking racket news became public, there have been three specific complaints against a Prafulla Kanan based Special Adoption Agency (SAA) close to Habra.

The local Child Welfare Committee too has now informed the CID that they were forced to stop the SAA from functioning in 2015 and lodge a case at Habra police station after the SAA officials sent a child for adoption without completing basic formalities. “There was a particular case where a man killed his wife and the child was sent to the centre. Without anyone’s knowledge, this child was put up for adoption,” said a source. A final decision on a separate probe on adoption agencies are now being mulled at Bhawani Bhawan, claimed sources.

Meanwhile, even as the CID has begun recording the statements of crucial witnesses in the baby trafficking racket that has witnessed 20 arrests so far, it seems it has found a legal solution to a tricky question. As of now, it has been decided by the top brass not to book any one of the five odd sets parents who had reportedly “paid” the trafficking gang in order to “adopt” the child.

“Adoption is a long and lengthy process. One of the key factors is whether the babies were orphans or whether their biological parents had permitted them to adopt their parents. Unless we trace the real parents or they appear before us willingly, we cannot go ahead and slap charges against them. Hence a decision on this – including whether we can use their testimonies in court to bolster our case - will be taken later after we get the DNA tests of the rescued babies completed,” said an investigating officer adding that the time to record their statements in court under CrPC 164 was yet to arrive.

CID officers said that now that most of the main gang members of one such module has been nabbed, they will be concentrating on establishing the entire modus operandi of the gang. “Just like the foster parents, there are a chunk of other people – nursing home nurses, staffers, ambulance drivers and even some doctors – who knowingly or unknowingly helped the gang. But then, we are dealing with them on a case to case basis. Too many arrests might lead to the big players managing to wriggle away,” commented a senior officer at Bhawani Bhavan.

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The Tampa Bay Times reported Saturday that Aedyn Agminalis died last Sunday after being taken off life support. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has opened a criminal investigation. The boy suffered from bleeding on the brain, cardiac arrest and acute respiratory failure. The state Department of Children and Families is launching its own inquiry.

“The loss of this child is absolutely devastating,” DCF Secretary Mike Carroll told the newspaper in an email.

The boy was living in a foster home licensed by A Door of Hope, a subcontractor for Eckerd Kids, a non-profit contracted by the county. Details about the foster home have not been released.