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Civil servants suspected of adoption fraud

The court wants to bring seven civil servants to court because they are allegedly involved in a large-scale fraud with Congolese adopted children. That reports Het Nieuwsblad.

14 September 2019

With eight, they are the suspects of large-scale adoption fraud with Congolese 'orphans' who the federal public prosecutor wants to drag for a criminal court. According to the newspaper, in addition to pivotal figure Julienne Mpemba - for many years at the head of the orphanage in Kinshasa - it would be about seven people who were or were employed by the French Community.

East Africa: EALA Locks Out Foreigners From Child Adoption

22 August 2015

By Dicta Asiimwe

Members of the East African Legislative Assembly, who are currently sitting in Kampala, want EAC partner states to abolish international child adoption to stop the likelihood of children falling into the hands of traffickers.

EALA on August 19 passed a general purpose report on the rights of the child, which wants EAC partner states -- Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi -- to change their laws to restrict adoption of children to their nationals only.

Over the course of the last six years, the minors in children’s homes under the care of the Child Welfare Society of Kenya (CWSK) around the country have suffered congestion, lack of proper medical care and experimental treatment procedures that sometimes leave them worse-off.

Investigations by the Sunday Standard and interviews paint a picture of neglect and an abdication of duty by the state agencyobligated to look after the less fortunate minors.

Children in the care of these state sponsored homes also suffer mistreatment, poor living conditions and in some instances, periodic abandonment of their education. The Sunday Standard brings you the story of the mess at CWSK and the devastating consequences the mess has had on lives of thousands of children under its care.

“After doing my orientation of one month at Mama Ngina Children’s Home, I was transferred to Waithaka,” a nurse at the CWSK told the Sunday Standard.

Waithaka is where children with special needs are sheltered. The physically challenged, some with bipolar disorders, as well as minors living with HIV. All these in constant need of proper medical care.

Instance

Court of The Hague

Date of decision

21-07-2016

Date of publication

There aren’t many success stories amongst the street children of Kolkata. Certainly not on the scale of Saroo Brierley, whose book was turned into the movie Lion, tipped for Oscar glory this weekend. It’s a story so moving that even hard bitten hacks at the private screening I went to were suspiciously red-eyed as the credits rolled. It has since captivated audiences worldwide - because it’s all true.

Starring Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel, Lion tells Saroo’s own incredible life story. Born into an impoverished family in rural India, his mother laboured in a quarry carrying rocks. They had barely enough to eat and as a small child he used to ride local trains with his older brother begging for food or a few rupees. One night, aged just five years-old he got separated and rode on a train to Kolkata, 1000 kilometers away, landing in the city’s Howrah railway station - the biggest in India and home to hundreds of the city’s abandoned kids.

He couldn’t speak Bengali, and didn’t know his village name, so faced the perils of life on the street alone, until he was adopted by an Australian family. Fast forward 25 years and Saroo, a young adult in Tasmania, uses newly invented Google Earth to search for the village he remembers as a child and eventually is reunited with the family he lost.

It’s not hard to see why this extraordinary tale has been made into a Hollywood movie, but for Theresa Godly, 42, an actor from Walton-upon-Thames, it struck a particularly heartbreaking chord.

Born on the streets of Kolkata on 26th December 1974, Theresa was handed to Shishu Bhavan, the Missionaries of Charity orphanage, just a few days later. She still has her adoption papers, signed by Mother Theresa. She knows a little about her Anglo-Indian birth mother, Yvonne, including, she thinks, her late husband’s last name: Fernandez. She had been widowed, she was destitute and living on the streets, she may have been forced to become a sex worker or been a victim of rape.

Birth parents and adoptees may search for each other after the adoptee reaches the age of 18. Because Holt’s headquarters are in Oregon, Oregon law governs all of Holt’s post adoption services. Oregon Statutes 109.425 & 109.455 require an adoptee to be 18 or older to initiate a search themselves.

Our partner agencies in India are happy to hear from adoptees, and are willing to forward letters and photos to foster parents or other caregivers from the adoptee’s past. However, due to the current climate surrounding relinquishment in India, especially in cases of an unwed mother, these agencies typically will not conduct a search for birth parents, nor will they release any identifying information. Although some of the stigmas against unwed mothers are changing, contact from an adoption agency could have serious repercussions for the birth mother. The agencies may be willing to search for extended family members or married birth parents in a few rare cases. If you would like to discuss this further, we would be happy to talk with you. There is always the possibility that Holt can connect you with someone from your past who remembers you, has a story about you, or can provide insight into your history.

If you would like to discuss your background with a Holt staff person, we must first confirm that your adoption was indeed facilitated by Holt International. Once this has been verified you’ll receive an email with additional information.

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NEW DELHI: A broad consensus over doing away with the discriminatory reference to a child as “legitimate” or “illegitimate”

and ensuring that mother is considered a natural guardian just as the father, emerged at the consultation on “guardianship

rights of the mother” organised by the National Commission for Women in the capital.

This consultation was part of a review by NCW of certain provisions of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Law

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Hindu-Minority-and-Guardianship-Law) 1956 and Guardianship and Wards Act

Friends were separated by adoption to families in Canada and Norway

Ten years ago, two best friends at an orphanage in India were separated. Tara Singh was four when she was adopted into a Kelowna, B.C., family, while a family in Norway welcomed five year old Anna Dalhaug.

The two girls have kept in touch through Facebook, but for the first time since their adoptions, they were reunited in Canada thanks to Mohini Singh, Tara's adoptive mother.

"Well my daughter really has missed Anna for 10 years, so my gift to her was we were going to help Anna come to Canada so they could have this reunion," Mohini Singh told Daybreak South's Chris Walker. Tara was very emotional about this relationship and I felt this would complete the circle for her."

Tara says she still remembers the first time she met her friend Anna.

CID sleuths interrogating couples who bought babies from the racket. Though they can be charged with trafficking and take the babies away, the investigators are treading cautiously.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sleuths were shocked to find out on Wednesday that one of the members of the recently busted baby sale racket sold a baby to her own maternal uncle for an amount of Rs 2 lakh.

Paramita Chatterjee, who was associated with Sree Krishna Nursing Home on College Street and arrested for her involvement in the racket, sold a baby a year-and-a-half old.

On Tuesday and Wednesday CID officers interrogated three couples from the city and outskirts, who bought babies from the recently busted racket, to find out how they were rearing the kids. The investigators are likely to continue the interrogation of more couple in the next few days.

Of the three couples questioned were the uncle of Chatterjee and his wife, a couple who live in Kalindi and another couple from the city.

According to the police, D Vijayalakshmi (30), who eked out a living by begging near the Secunderabad Railway Station, allegedly sold her son, Akhil, due to poverty

Hyderabad: A 10-month-old baby boy, who was sold by his own mother for Rs 60,000, was rescued by the LB Nagar police and shifted to Shishu Vihar. The mother, who cooked up a kidnap story and even staged an accident to mislead the police, was arrested along with the man who ‘purchased’ the baby.

According to the police, D Vijayalakshmi (30), who eked out a living by begging near the Secunderabad Railway Station, allegedly sold her son, Akhil, due to poverty. She then lodged a complaint with the police stating that an unidentified couple kidnapped Akhil at Gunti Jangaiah Colony in LB Nagar.

She said the couple, who came on a scooter, hit her. When she fell unconscious, they picked up Akhil and fled, she alleged. The police, who collected surveillance camera footage from the spot, identified the registration number of the scooter and tracked down the vehicle owner, Oraganti Mosha — a pushcart vendor from Chatanpally in Farooq Nagar of Ranga Reddy district.

The police arrested Mosha, and during questioning, he confessed that Vijayalakshmi actually sold the baby to him. He also said that the accident scene was staged. “He confessed to have purchased the infant from Vijayalakshmi for Rs 60,000 in Shadnagar recently. When we questioned the mother, she too confessed to selling the child due to poverty,” police said, adding that the woman approached other people in Shadnagar as well to sell the child. But, she struck a deal with Mosha.