The former head of Adoption by Choice, an Alberta adoption agency that closed suddenly in May, is facing a criminal fraud charge, CBC News has learned.

Documents filed in Calgary provincial court show Ramone Kindrat, 55, was charged last December with fraud. It is alleged that Kindrat used an ABC employee's name and master's degree with the intent to gain advantage for herself in the form of more clients.

The charge against Kindrat is the latest development to surface in the troubles of the Calgary-based agency, which had clients across the province.

ABC shut its doors in May, announcing it would close permanently at the end of July. In a statement, the agency cited a decline in the number of birth parents seeking adoptions.

Clients waiting to adopt babies said they were devastated.

Potential adopters must have "good mental health, a healthy harmonious personality, a good marriage, a nuanced environment", wrote county social director and later chairman of the youth commission Lars Lundgaard in 1982 about the adoption of foreign children and continued:

“It’s not just superhumans who meet these conditions. But there must be profit and harmony. It is also there in the ordinary Danish family. "

Approximately 15 years before, the market for illegal adoptions had been brought under control by issuing permits to the persons and organizations that for years had provided Afro-German children to Danish couples in direct violation of the law.

What had not changed, however, from the illegal 'child import' of the 1950s to the regulated adoption industry of the 1980s, was the belief in "profit and harmony" in the "ordinary Danish family". A view that has now for 60 years legitimized adoptions from abroad to Denmark. Whether it's 'illegitimate' children of white German women and African American soldiers, children of single mothers in Korea or of AIDS-stricken Ethiopian parents, the argument for picking up these children, transporting them across borders and installing them in new homes in Denmark been that they would get better here. Because there is profit and harmony in the ordinary Danish family.

Child imports

Chinese parents finally dare to look for daughters they gave away long ago. The one-child policy has been abolished for a few years now, so they no longer get a fine. Behind the shame that remains is the deep need to know how their child is doing.

Eefje Rammeloo2 July 2020 , 10:57 AM

Ye Yunfeng has a face full of laughter lines, the face of someone who likes to get up to mischief and can laugh happily. He must be a nice father to his son and daughter. There are two of them, the third was an accident. The laugh lines suddenly disappear. "Had it been a son, I might have fled into the mountains with him." It was the heyday of the one-child policy, and Farmer Ye couldn't pay another fine.

His parents still knew someone who could make the baby disappear. The girl was a few days old when her parents gave her to a crippled man in the morning. “The sun wasn't up yet,” Ye recalls. When he regretted it a few years later, he went after the man, but he turned out to be dead. He would give something to see his now 34-year-old daughter. The great thing is: nobody can fix it anymore, because the one-child policy is history.

A few hundred parents spend their Saturday afternoon on a square in the town of Shouning. They walk restlessly from one side of the square to the other. Maybe their daughter will also register just today. On a table in the semicircular gazebo lie sterile-wrapped cotton swabs and needles. The ladies who manage the table are sure to prick the fingers of the seekers. They drip some blood onto a card that they staple to a form in a brown envelope. Those who cannot write can leave it to them.

The ratings hit 'With open arms', presented by Natasja Froger, has shaken up the discussion about adoption.

It is really time to take a close look at the institute of intercountry adoption and start thinking seriously about alternatives, such as sustainable foster parent care in the country itself.

Foreign adoption is a self-perpetuating phenomenon that must disappear to prevent further suffering for parents and children. There is suffering with the parents of the children who have been put up for adoption. The grief of having to give up your child is indescribable. It becomes even more distressing if, as in some of the cases, this was not done voluntarily.

It is also a laborious process for adoptive parents, as the Flemish writer Benno Barnard explains in great detail. He drew the ire of many on his neck in February of this year with the publication of his piece: 'Don't Adoption'.

Nest

After having lodged a complaint against the former boss of the ANR, Dieu Merci Kitambo, Human Rights Defender and Head of Office in charge of Child Protection at the Network of Human Rights and Civic Education Organizations of Christian Inspiration, RODHECIC in acronym, was visited on March 09, 2020 at his home by strangers.

Obviously, these unidentified bandits were on a suicide mission. They did not find their target, missing from her home for the simple reason that she spent the night at a wake in Yolo in Kalamu Municipality.

Contacted by Objectif Infos CD, the unfortunate man presented a paper on which these thugs left him a message written in red: "GOD THANKS OKO KUFA LOKOLA MBWA PONA COMPLAINT AGAINST KALEV", a message which simply means in French: " Thank God you will die like a dog for a complaint against Kalev ".

In addition to this message, these strangers, after a systematic search, managed to extract from the inside pocket of a bag, the sum of 120 US dollars and the passport.

Recently, Mr. Kitambo posted a video of himself on social networks denouncing the horrors he experienced during his imprisonment in the ANR prison in 2017 while he was investigating a network of child traffickers implicated by Belgium.

It was just a few years after the Liberation War in 1971. Caroline Amena Lauritsen was a child then. She does not remember how old she was back then, but her adoption papers say she was three years old.

With a group of children, all from the same “baby home” as hers, Caroline flew to Denmark on November 13, 1975. The only memories she has from her life back in Bangladesh are a few words—words that she finds hard to pronounce now.

“Amena no ghum” and “paani” are the only words that she remembers, she tells me, as we settle down for a chat in a cosy apartment in Dhaka and I ask her what she remembers of her life in Bangladesh, decades back. She also has one lasting memory of her best friend “Moti”.

“The first thing I named when I arrived at my parent's house in Denmark was their cat. I called it Pilai.”

Caroline Amena Lauritsen is now a woman in her late forties and is visiting Bangladesh in search of her lost family.

AMERICAN YouTuber Myka Stauffer was living the dream: a beautiful home and family.

In 2017, Myka and her husband James, who now have four birth children, adopted two-year-old Huxley from China. Myka’s YouTube figures soared thanks to entertaining footage of him adjusting to life in America and finding his feet in his new family. That is until he no longer appeared in her video diary earlier this year.

When questioned, the Stauffers issued a video explaining that they felt unable to cater to Huxley’s increasingly demanding special needs. So, he now lives with another family.

The backlash was fierce, with the Stauffers accused of discarding Huxley when he became too much for them to handle.

The couple’s lawyers told People magazine that the decision was difficult and but made “to provide Huxley with the best possible treatment and care.

The winner of this year's Anti-Slavery International award has appealed for the governments of Uganda and Sudan to take concrete steps to end child slavery in northern Uganda.

The commanders fight over the BBC radio but the children fight on the ground and die

George Omona

More than 14,000 children are estimated to have been abducted by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) since 1986, mostly from Kitgum and Gulu districts, and taken to southern Sudan to fight or serve as sex slaves.

It is estimated nearly 90% of LRA fighters are enslaved children - nearly 6,000 are still missing and it is not known whether they are dead or alive.

VISAKHAPATNAM: The police probing the child trafficking case against Universal Srushti Fertility and Research Centre, filed a petition in the court seeking custody of the accused, including hospital MD P Namrata, who are in judicial custody. She is undergoing treatment in King George Hospital now.

Meanwhile, the police teams with the help of revenue and police officials, are analysing the records and hard disks seized from the hospital during the raids. The police are investigating into 56 deliveries that were recorded in the hospital to find out whether there are any other illegal child trafficking.

According to sources, the surrogacy fraud committed by the hospital management came to light in Hyderabad, when a couple complained to Gopalapuram police that they were cheated by it. The couple said they visited the fertility centre in Secunderabad on November 11, 2019 with regard to surrogacy.

They stated that they paid Rs 10 lakh to the hospital MD and they are scheduled to give the baby in October. Meanwhile, as cases against the hospital were reported, they lodged a complaint with the police against the management.

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VISAKHAPATNAM: Investigation into the child trafficking case linked to

Universal Srusti Hospital has taken a twist in course of the weekend.

Police now suspect a link between the accused and Padmaja Hospital at

Seethammadhara. Police and medical teams searched the hospital on

Saturday night and seized some documents.