NEW DELHI: More than a decade after Parliament enacted the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, the Supreme Court on Thursday cracked the whip for its implementation, making it mandatory for states to provide a plain-clothed special juvenile police officer (SJPO) in every police station.

In addition, the states have to create a Special Juvenile Police Unit (SJPU), comprising personnel specially trained and oriented for child causes (read offences) in every district and each missing child report must be converted into FIRs, the court ordered.

Though the court had ordered implementation of the law enacted in 2000 by Parliament, very few states have responded to a PIL by Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which alleged that very little was done to trace nearly 55,000 children who go missing every year. Senior advocate H S Phoolka complained that there was lack of scientific investigation to trace the children and that the law for juveniles had not been implemented.

The Supreme Court on Thursday made it mandatory for police stations across the country to compulsorily register missing complaints of any minor and appoint a special police officer to handle complaints of juveniles. Such police personnel should be stationed at every police station in plain clothes.

At a time when there has been a spurt in reports of trafficking of minor children and their abuse, a bench of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Justices J Chelameswar and Vikramjit Sen was livid with the casual approach of six states, which did not even bother to depute a lawyer to represent them during the hearing.

Adoption and Pedophilia, a Chilling Affair

Raped in the orphanage. Photographed and filmed. The shocking tale of three Bulgarian children adopted in Italy. And their parents’ accusations were ignored.

The lights in the windows of the orphanage tonight go out later than usual. The half-moon illuminates the clean air which is fifteen degrees below zero and shines on the shapes of the hungry foxes who come in looking for something to bite. This is the worst time. The time at which the barking of stray dogs resonates. And one in which "D" enters in the rooms of younger children. It happens almost every night in this remote snowy countryside institution in Bulgaria. And if it is not him, there is always someone his age who wants to have sex at this time. They are only twelve or thirteen years old. No older. The victims, are younger. Three, five or 7 years old. At most ten. Nor is it the fault of "D". He simply repeats what older guests had done to him. And not only the guests. The violence often would be done by some employees of the institution. At least seven men and four women.

They make the children prostitute in a nightclub. Taking photographs. Sometimes the sexual attacks are filmed. Perhaps they resell the film. Here, on the edge of the European Union, between the barking of the foxes who move around you, it is a secret guarded for years. And, it would still be a secret if the last three children who just got adopted in Italy had not had the courage to break the silence. Right now they are free, they want to save others kids, almost sixty, who still live in that orphanage. And, above all, to save themselves from a far too cruel childhood. It's a chilling account. Seven pages which were sent a few weeks ago to the President of the Commission for international adoptions, Minister Andrea Riccardi.

Once it was exposed, adoptive parents have complained about the lack of any action to stop the abuses, by the group that mediated the adoption, the Aibi [Amici dei Bambini]. One of the major legally recognized groups that brought 249 children to Italy in 2011, declared an income of 8 million to 761 thousand euros and a capital of nearly 4 million.

The ratification by Ukraine of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption will oblige countries whose citizens adopted Ukrainian children to provide full information about the fate of the adoptees, the Ukrainian president's children's rights commissioner, Yuriy Pavlenko, has said.

“The ratification of the Hague Convention would oblige the countries in which Ukrainian children were adopted to provide us with full information about their fate, as the 89 countries that ratified the Convention include the United States, Italy, France, Spain, Israel, Canada, the citizens of which have adopted the most children over the period of [Ukraine’s] independence,” he told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.

According to the children’s ombudsman, the major priorities of the Hague Adoption Convention are support for and the protection of the biological family, as well as comprehensive support for and the development of national adoption.

In addition, he said that inter-country adoption, in accordance with the Convention, takes place only after due consideration of all possibilities for the placement of the child within the state of origin, provided that inter-country adoption is in the child’s best interests.

“The procedure proposed by the Hague Convention ensures that the child is affected as little as possible in all processes and procedures related to inter-country adoptions,” Pavlenko said.

UNICEF urges Ukraine to ratify the Hague Convention

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Kyiv, January 16, 2013 – UN Children’s Fund in Ukraine supports President Yanukovych’s initiative and urges Ukraine to ratify the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoptions (the Hague Convention).

UNICEF believes that all decisions relating to children, including adoptions, should be made with the best interests of the child as the primary consideration. The Hague Convention on International Adoptions promotes transparent processes and UNICEF urges national authorities to follow the guidelines and principles laid down in the Convention.

“Lack of regulation and oversight, particularly in countries of origin, coupled with the potential for financial gain, has spurred the growth of an industry around adoption where profit, rather than the best interests of children, takes central stage. Many countries around the world have recognised the risks, and have ratified the Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoption to protect the best interests of each individual child” - explained UNICEF Representative in Ukraine.

Bulgaria, nella tana dei pedofilidi

Fabrizio Gatti

Violentati nell'orfanotrofio.

Fotografati e filmati.

Il racconto choc di tre bambini bulgari adottati in Italia apre una finestra su un orrore nascosto che può contare su molti complici. E i genitori accusano: le nostre denunce sono state ignorate(14 gennaio 2013)Un'immagine scattata in un istituto per minori in BulgariaLe luci nelle finestre dell'orfanotrofio stasera si spengono più tardi del solito. Sono le otto e venti. Qui fuori la mezza luna rischiara l'aria limpida a quindici gradi sotto zero e le sagome delle volpi affamate che si avvicinano in cerca di qualcosa da mordere. E' il momento peggiore. L'ora in cui risuonano i latrati dei cani randagi. E quella in cui D. entra nelle camere dei bambini più piccoli. Succede quasi ogni sera in questo istituto sperduto nelle campagne innevate della Bulgaria.

Date: 14/01/13

The procedures for institutionalized children victims of abuse: the case of Bulgaria and the details of Ai.Bi.

In " L'Espresso "11 January 2013 was published an article by journalist Fabrizio Gatti in which it refers to some facts related to the adoption of three children made in Bulgaria at an institution through Ai.Bi. Association of Friends of Children, body authorized under applicable law.

The article refers to some "facts" that occurred in the institution in which they lived Bulgarian adopted children.This applies, in particular, sexual behavior between children and sexual abuse by pedophiles adults. Of these facts, the article said, Ai.Bi. was aware.

This is misleading and severely damaging to Ai.Bi. as unfounded .

Italian magazine reports on sexual abuse cases in Bulgarian home for children deprived of parental care

12 January 2013 | 20:12 | FOCUS News Agency

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Sofia. In a shocking article the Italian weekly newsmagazine L'espresso reports on a case of pedophilia in a Bulgarian home for children deprived of parental care, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reported.

The adoptive families of the Bulgarian children reported the sexual abuse cases to the Italian institutions last October, reads the magazine. However, it is possible that the Bulgarian authorities has not received officially the pedophilia signal yet.

International adoption in free fall

by Roberta Lunghini - 01.09.2013 | Comments | Print |

-22.8 %

In Italy, between 2011 and 2012, international adoptions decrease by 22.8% over the previous year. For a total of 3,106 foreign minors who have been authorized to enter our country. Russian Federation (749 children, 24.1% of the total), Colombia (310, 10%), Brazil (270, 8.7%), Ethiopia (233, 7.5%) and Ukraine (225, 7.2%) are, as in 2011, the top five countries of origin of children adopted by the Italian families. These are some of the provisional figures released by the CAI (Commission for International Adoptions).

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