EXCLUSIVE: Revealed - the Filipino baby and teen mom at center of human trafficking claim: Utah woman posed as newborn's aunt 'to smuggle him to U.S. in her carry-on for Mormon blessing'

Jennifer Talbot, 42, claimed she was the aunt of a six-day-old baby after she was allegedly caught trying to 'smuggle' the child on a flight from Manila to Detroit

She was carrying an affidavit of consent and support from Maicris Dulap, 19, of Mt Diwata, who gave birth to baby Andrew on August 29, on September 4

The document, obtained by DailyMail.com reveals the teen mom stated the child was traveling to the US with his 'aunt' to meet his dying great-grandmother

She also said the baby was to receive a membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and American medical vaccines

Tannishtha Chatterjee’s latest film Jhalki, a tribute Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, was screened in his presence this Saturday. After the screening, the actors from the film — which is about a little girl named Jhalki who leaves home to rescue her younger brother Babu from a carpet-weaving unit — also participated in a round table conference, discussing the subject of the film: Child slavery and bonded labour.

Directed by Brahmanand S Singh and written by Prakash Jha and Kamlesh Kunti Singh, the film has done rounds of festivals like the Singapore South Asian International Film Festival, the Jagran Film Festival, as well as the Cannes Film Festival.

Talking about it, Tannishtha, in an exclusive conversation, says: “I am a single mother who has adopted a girl child and named her Radhika. She’s only been with me for three months, and when I first got her she was quick to question ‘abhi tak kahaan they?’ (Where were you until now?). There is a line in the film where Jhalki asks Boman Irani’s character the same question when they go to save her brother. So the film has been weaved with real incidents, and will remain in my heart always for that reason.”

When asked about her choice to be a single mother, the actress reveals that many people in her life warned her against it. “So many of my friends and relatives too advised me not to choose my freedom by adopting any child, and especially a girl. However, I was contemplating adopting a girl child for a long time. And this time, when my friends tried to remind me about my flourishing career, I simply said that I will manage it even with my daughter. And now I am really happy to be juggling my professional life with looking after her. Of course, it can get difficult, but managing on both the fronts makes me feel very happy,” she smiles.

Tannishtha further reveals that adoption was on her mind way before Jhalki came into the picture. “When I did Lion in 2016, where Saroo gets separated from his family at the age of five and then ends up being adopted, I have been contemplating adopting a girl since then,” she shares.

Woman who had to give up a child holds State liable

The first of more than ten thousand mothers who had to give up their child in the 50s, 60s and 70s, a woman went to court. Trudy Scheele-Gertsen (73) calls it disgraceful in the newspaper Trouw what happened to her and her son. She does not want compensation, but recognition of the suffering caused to her and her son.

Scheele-Gertsen became pregnant unmarried in the late 1960s and ended up in a home for unmarried mothers in Oosterbeek. Although she clearly stated that she wanted to keep her child, she had to give up her son immediately after birth. In those days, she insisted on seeing him once more.

Her lawyer, Lisa-Marie Komp, tells Trouw that the Child Protection Board could have known that she wanted to keep her child. In addition, says Komp, Dutch law and the Convention on Human Rights signed by the Netherlands had already established that the bond between mother and child is essential.

Scheele-Gertsen was also not informed of her rights, namely that she was entitled to assistance, to financial support from the father. Her child ended up in a home and was adopted after almost three years. She would later read in his file that he missed his mother in those early years and cried a lot.

Institutionalized children against their will- Youth offices under pressure?

Movie by Detlef Schwarzer

Nationwide, 40 389 children were taken out of families in 2018, more than ever before. The majority without concrete suspicion of violence. Do the youth welfare offices react in response to the dramatic cases of recent years?

"ZDFzoom" explores the question of why youth welfare offices are increasingly resorting to the utmost remedy, the removal of children from families, and what dramatic consequences this can have.

"ZDFzoom" author Detlef Schwarzer was given insight into hundreds of letters desperate parents who fight in some lengthy litigation for the return of their children. The letters were received by the family policy spokesman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group; Marcus Weinberg sees great need for action on the part of politicians: "Many parents feel humiliated and compelled in family court or youth office procedures." Every single misjudgment, every single misjudged child is our job to review the system. "

AN English couple who adopted a baby girl for $19,000 (£12,700) from a Texan adoption agency have been ordered by a High Court judge in London to send her back to America.

Social services in England had contacted the American adoption agency to say there were compelling reasons to believe that the couple were not suitable adoptive parents. The judge was highly critical of how the adoption process had been handled, saying he did not think "anybody could begin to believe this was a proper way of deciding the future of a human being".

Mr Justice Johnson, a senior judge in the Family Division, said the girl was born on Dec 18 and immediately handed over to the adoption agency by her mother, who had relinquished all parental responsibility. Two days later the adoptive father flew from England to America, paid the agency $19,000, and the girl, who had been given a new name, was handed over after the signing of an adoption agreement.

The judge said the agreement provided for the adoption to be finalised within seven months if matters progressed satisfactorily and referred to "home visits" being made to the adoptive parents. But after signing the agreement and paying the money, the adoptive father returned to England with the child and no home visits had taken place, said the judge.

The adoption had proceeded on the basis of a report from an independent social worker with no professional qualifications. It was surprising, said the judge, that the adoption agency made an important decision as to where the girl, identified only as "J", should be brought up on the basis of such a report.

Amid what appears to be a baby smuggling incident, how does one properly adopt a child? Social Welfare Undersecretary Flor Villar and Attorney Rod Nepomuceno joins us to talk about adoption in the Philippines.

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By mid-September, the fate of two US-adopted Bulgarians who were removed from their family and protected by the Missouri Department of Children and Family Affairs must be decided. What will happen to the two girls will be decided by the US court, with the first hearing scheduled for September 6, 2019.

The case is a precedent for the Bulgarian institutions.

"She was dirty, not well dressed, she had no shoes. She ate two peanut butter sandwiches and a few packets of chips in a hurry and continued to ask for more food." Sheriff Darin Braulley's story from Shannon County, Missouri, about his first date with one of the two twins. She is found by a neighbor on a dirt road not far from the house of the McGregor family, with greasy hair, scarring and bleeding feet, thirsty and hungry. The girl and his sister live with the 8 children of 56-year-old Mark Magregor and his 40-year-old wife Melissa. The two Bulgarians are kept in a dark room for hours, they are allowed to use pillows only with good behavior, they eat mostly raw vegetables, they were hit with kitchen utensils in front of their biological children, they had to ask for permission to bathe and dress. There is no such attitude towards biological children. Two charges have been filed against Mark and Melissa McGregor, leading to a sentence of 5 to 15 years in prison. The couple is currently under $ 100,000 bail. And Bulgarian girls aged 14 with initials R. and K. are placed in a home for children deprived of parental care.

"The children themselves have an appointed guardian from the state of Missouri, that is, a person who directly cares for their rights and interests," said our consul in Chicago, Ivan Anchev. He met with them and said that the children were calm and feeling well:

"The conversation was entirely in English. From the very beginning, I asked them how they wanted to talk - in Bulgarian or English, and they preferred English, so this testifies to the level of adaptation of the children in the local environment."

A New York bill to grant visitation to birthparents who’ve had their rights terminated goes too far.

Of the more than 25,000 children in foster care in New York state, some 3,500 are waiting to be adopted. But legislation that passed the state Assembly and Senate in June could make it much harder for these children to find permanent homes.

Introduced by Bronx Assemblywoman Latoya Joyner, the Preserving Family Bonds Act would let birthparents whose rights have been terminated by the court apply to visit their children. They would be entitled to a hearing to argue that their continuing contact is in the child’s best interest....

After losing his parents, Elvis Izabayo, a TV presenter, had no option but to stay in an orphanage.

Though he managed to forge a living, life was never easy growing up in an orphanage.

He recalls being exposed to abuse, exploitation, neglect, and lack of love and care from parents. It was so painful that he lived with these scars for so many years.

“This affected me and some of my other colleagues that even when we left the place, we had to battle emotional and behavioral issues. I was emotionally needy, insecure, and poor,” he recalls.

Five years ago, the Government embarked on a mission to close orphanages and other children’s institutions and reintegrate the children into family-based care.

Woman (56) says she was coerced into having her baby adopted nearly 40 years ago.

The High Court has dismissed a damages action against the Adoption Authority of Ireland brought by a 56-year-old woman who claims she was coerced into having her baby daughter adopted nearly 40 years ago.

The woman sued both the Adoption Authority (AAI) and an accredited adoption agency, Cúnamh, for personal injuries and an alleged breach of constitutional rights arising out of the adoption of her baby in 1979.

The woman, who gave birth when she was 16 years of age, also claimed the authority had failed to ensure that she was in a position to give informed consent to the adoption of her child.

In a pretrial motion, the authority sought to have her action struck out on grounds including that the case was statute-barred and over the lengthy delay by the woman in bringing the proceedings.