Kozhikode: Seek and you shall find! A young Italian woman of Indian

origin did so and located her mother. Thus Navya Sofia Dorigatti, 35,

finally had her wish fulfilled. The Italian national's mother had

abandoned her at an orphanage in Kerala's Kozhikode district 35

years ago soon after she was born.

"They just sold us"

"Adopt a child from abroad", they said, "Then you can give it a better life". Thousands of children from Indonesia found their way to the Netherlands, but they were simply stolen and sold. The Dutch government knew about it. Dewi Deijle was one of those children and has written a book about this issue: "Postpackages from Overseas".

"Ze hebben ons gewoon verkocht".

''Adopteer een kindje uit het buitenland", zeiden ze, "Dan kun je het een beter leven geven". Duizenden kinderen uit Indonesië vonden hun weg naar Nederland, maar ze waren gewoon gestolen en verkocht. De Nederlandse overheid wist ervan. Dewi Deijle was èèn van die kinderen en heeft een boek geschreven over deze kwestie: "Postpakketjes van Overzee".

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HIV-positive parents sold the 22-day son to a couple for ?1.1 lakh

A 22-day-old boy child was sold by its HIV-positive and poverty-stricken parents at Manapparai in Tiruchi district recently.

The Tiruchi Rural Police have arrested three persons — an intermediary and the couple who had bought the child, paying ?1.35 lakh.

The action was initiated based on a complaint preferred by the District Child Protection Officer to the Manapparai police station on Thursday.

The incident came to light when the baby was admitted to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital in Tiruchi with fever on Wednesday. According to hospital sources, the baby was found to be “critically underweight” and the “mother” was asked to breastfeed the infant. “But the mother said she could not. When coaxed, she divulged that the baby was not hers. They could not produce documents for adoption too. Hence, the matter was reported to the Childline,” a medical officer said.

The new dad must go with it

A woman from Frankfurt brought a child from Africa. However, the adoption did not recognize the OLG Frankfurt, because her husband was not present on site. This contradicts any principles of child-friendly procedures.

The biological father had approved the high court of the West African state positively - and yet the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Frankfurt does not accept the adoption of a girl from Africa by a couple in Frankfurt. Since the husband of the accepting couple was not present at the decision of the court in Africa, the adoption process violates the ordre public international - ie against international values. The child's welfare was so disregarded in the local proceedings that it would not be possible to heal the violations, the court ruled in a decision now published (v. 24.9.2019, Az. 1 UF 93/18).

The woman had taken the girl from a West African state shortly after birth while she was in the country. The biological father had consented to the custody transfer and stated that the mother had died soon after birth. So the high court of the country decided that the couple should adopt the little girl. However, the husband had never seen it before.

Strong contradiction to the German legal system

Earlier this year, social workers in Karnataka noticed an unusual spike in incidents of families returning children to state adoption agencies. They filed an RTI.

New Delhi: India’s Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is facing a crisis — there’s been an unprecedented rise in adoptive parents returning children soon after adoption, or ‘disruption’, as it is called.

Earlier this year, social workers in the field of adoption in Karnataka noticed an unusual spike in incidents of families returning children to state adoption agencies, and filed an RTI on it. In August, the RTI response from CARA confirmed their observations — of the 6,650 children adopted by Indian families between 2017-19, 4 per cent or 278 were returned.

While there was speculation that most children who were returned were specially-abled and the families failed to adjust with them, it was mostly older children, above 6 years of age, who were returned, according to CARA’s member secretary and CEO Deepak Kumar.

“Of the 3,200 children adopted by Indian families in one year, hardly 50 are those with special needs. For inter-country adoptions — 400 of the 700 adopted are specially-abled. It’s the older children who comprise a majority of children returned,” Kumar told ThePrint.

MUMBAI: Every year, roughly 207 newly born children are abandoned (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/abandoned) in

nullahs or cribs outside children’s homes across Maharashtra (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/maharashtra).

The National Crime Records Bureau (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Crime-Records-Bureau) (NCRB

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/NCRB))’s latest report shows Maharashtra led other states in the number of

abandoned newborns (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/newborns) between 2011 and 2017. Maharashtra reported

A notorious South Korean facility that kidnapped, abused and enslaved children and the disabled for a generation was also shipping children overseas for adoption, part of a massive profit-seeking enterprise that thrived by exploiting those trapped within its walls, The Associated Press has found.

The AP, which previously exposed a government cover-up at Brothers Home and a far greater level of abuse than earlier known, has now found that the facility was part of an orphanage pipeline feeding the demand of private adoption agencies.

Relying on government documents obtained from officials, lawmakers or from freedom of information requests, the AP uncovered direct evidence that 19 children were adopted out of Brothers and sent abroad, as well as indirect evidence showing at least 51 more such adoptions. The adoptions AP found took place between 1979 and 1986.

Choi Seung-woo, a victim of Brothers Home, speaks during an interview in front of National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

There were probably many more adoptions over the three decades that Brothers, the largest facility of its kind in the nation, was in operation, but the full extent will likely never be known.

The authorities have uncovered a multimillion dollar international ring in which hundreds of poor Andean children were kidnapped or bought from their mothers and sold under forged birth certificates and adoption papers to childless couples from the United States and Europe.

A Bogota lawyer has been jailed on charges involving the smuggling abroad of 500 to 600 youngsters from Colombia and possibly 100 more from Peru. In neighboring Ecuador, officials have turned up more than a hundred questionable adoptions by Italian families.

The Colombian network is said to have included three juvenile court judges, six notaries, nurses in two maternity clinics, officials of the Government's family welfare agency, several secretaries and housewives and a Colombian consul in Spain. Among those charged in Peru is an official of the Government unit that handles international earthquake aid. The principal figure arrested so far in the Ecuadorian cases is the president of the national children's court.

Lies and Kidnappings

Some babies were obtained through nurses who told mothers that their offspring had been born dead and passed the infants along to the lawyer. Others were simply kidnapped or bought from impoverished peasant women. At times members of the organization were sent out to patrol the city's red-light district to find pregnant prostitutes and persuade them to sell their babies.

MUMBAI: The fees that prospective parents pay to adopt a child is not subject to Goods and Services Tax, the Maharashtra

bench of the Authority for Advance Rulings has said.

AAR gave the ruling after agreeing with the argument of a recognised adoption agency from Nerul that children are not

“goods” and the agency does not provide any “services” to the prospective parents.

Indian couples (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Indian-couples) interested in adopting a child must pay a fee of Rs

"There are a number of different schemes by which adoptions are being fraudulently induced in Northwest Arkansas"

by: Lauren Krakau

Posted: Oct 3, 2019 / 10:59 PM CDT / Updated: Oct 3, 2019 / 10:59 PM CDT

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ROGERS, Ark. (KFTA) — Following yet another report of fraudulent adoptions in Northwest Arkansas, a local attorney is doing everything he can to put a stop to the crime.