Three-days-old Ambika, who was abandoned at a carcass dump (called hadda roori in Punjabi) is the newest member of SGB Bal Ghar, an orphanage run by Swami Ganga Nand Bhuriwale International Foundation, at Dham Talwandi Khurd, on the outskirts of the city.

Three-days-old Ambika, who was abandoned at a carcass dump (called hadda roori in Punjabi) is the newest member of SGB Bal Ghar, an orphanage run by Swami Ganga Nand Bhuriwale International Foundation, at Dham Talwandi Khurd, on the outskirts of the city.

Ambika was abandoned at the carcass dump, a wandering ground for stray dogs, near Sardoolgarh in Mansa, after a few hours of her birth. When some villagers heard her crying, they rescued her and took her to the civil hospital in Mansa.

She has now reached SGB Bal Ghar that houses 50 children, eight of who are abandoned babies that reached here in the last two months alone. According to the NGO members, “The parents usually abandon these new-born children at garbage dumps, parks, fields, hospitals or other such places.”

While they may have been dumped by their own kin, the staff of Bal Ghar tries its best to ensure that these orphaned or abandoned children get all the required facilities they need.

2013 work and beatings for German children - Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung

More and more German Youth Welfare Offices are sending behaviorally discrepant and criminal youths to "experiential institutions" abroad, where they should learn discipline and subordination. Thus, the authorities are easily rid of the problem cases and the carriers do good business. For many young people living in Romania, this means a martyrdom of abuse and exploitation.

Carsten (name changed) has been running a small farm for three years with his disabled host father and his mother. Since then, he shares the bedroom with the old woman, the host mother left the family two years ago. In Elisabethstadt (Dumbraveni) Carsten visited a school for learning disabled people on two days of teaching. There is no well in the yard, so in the morning and in the evening about ten buckets of water have to be brought from the village well. An everyday Romanian fate - only with the difference that Carsten was sent here by a German youth welfare office. He has not seen his homeland for three years.

German youth welfare offices increasingly resort to the offer of private providers to send young people with disabilities to a "last chance" in host families or care facilities in Romania. The carriers receive between 4,000 and 6,000 euros per child per month, with the host families receiving only around 400 euros. The education methods are similar to those in US boot camps: opposition is hardly tolerated, ignoring the house rules at all. The education based on punitive measures relies on hard work, forced marches and physical restriction.

Under the motto "Living without consumption - simple but heartfelt", children and adolescents living in the simplest of surroundings should make completely new life experiences in suitable Romanian family relationships, which should enable a new beginning in Germany. With the help of punishment and reward, children and adolescents are forced to submit. As the former employee of the Martinswerk Dorlen, Christa Schudeja, indicates, it was even thought out loud in employee interviews about the reintroduction of corporal punishment. If the children damage something, they have to replace it with their pocket money.

Authorities in Romania are investigating a social program for troubled youths, who were allegedly kept in "slavery-like conditions." A German couple is being investigated for human trafficking.

Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism opened an investigation into eight individuals suspected of mistreating German children. The agency carried out a search of the suspects' homes on Tuesday.

Authorities said a German couple was part of the individuals being investigated. All suspects, who have not yet been arrested, were involved with "Projekt Maramures," a "social program" financed by the German state and licensed by Romania's Labor Ministry.

Projekt Maramures sought to "rehabilitate" troubled German children and teenagers aged between 12 and 18 through recreational activities and psychological assistance. It was located in the northern rural Romanian region of Maramures.

But its founders are being investigated for allegedly forcing teenagers aged between 12 and 18 to "do exhausting physical labor" in numerous households.

AHMEDABAD: Call it the parent of all paradoxes: an 11-year-old girl (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/11-year-old-girl)

who has biological as well as adoptive parents has been sent to a child protection home

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/child-protection-home). While the adoptive parents have taken a moral stand and

want to return the child to her real mother and father, the biological parents have no legal standing to take back their daughter.

In this case of adoption gone (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/adoption-gone) awfully awry

It all started when a Facebook user Sandhya was browsing multiple online gifting sites for Rakshabandhan this year, and came across a website that sold ‘combo’ gift items for siblings. All that was fine, of course, except that there were some products designed and marketed in a way that specifically addressed one of the siblings as an adopted child, and in a manner that many found to be derogatory.

At a time when the concept of adoption is still not very well accepted in our society, the last thing we need is people making fun of an issue that has so many layers and is such a sensitive one for many. To trivialise it or pass ‘cool’ jokes around adoption, which is often overwhelming for families going through it, is just not done.

As Sandhya delved deeper and did more research, she found that there were a number ofother websites which had similar products and she took it upon her to bring it to the attention of these sites, pointing out that they were actually hurting the sentiments of adoptive parents.

One of the companies indulging in selling such products was OyeHappy. The products listed ranged from magnets, picture stands, mugs and rakhis. Each one of them carried a text where one of the children was a natural sibling and the other an ‘adopted’ one — the latter, mostly represented by a caricature that looked subdued.

Sandhya and many others are part of a Facebook group which addresses and discusses the issues, concerns and life of adoptive parents. She brought this to the attention of the Facebook group which joined together to pull such product listings off the website.

At a panel discussion in Bengaluru by NGO Padme, panelists discussed various aspects of adoption like root search by adoptees and representation in the media.

Take a group of people and ask them for their thoughts on adoption, and chances are at least a few of them will say that adoption is a noble thing to do, that it allows needy children to be saved. At least, these were the responses students of Mount Carmel College got when they did some randomised interviews in Bengaluru a couple of months ago.

These interviews were put together by Padme, a registered non-governmental organisation that works to demystify adoption and guide and support prospective adoptive parents, among other things. On Sunday, Padme organised a panel discussion in Bengaluru which looked at such perceptions around adoption as well as related privacy issues.

The panel consisted of Supriya Deverkonda, an admin of People’s Group of Child Adoption in India (PGCAI); Dr Aloma Lobo, former chairperson of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA); Baradwaj Rangan, senior editor at Film Companion; and Geetika Mantri, a journalist with The News Minute. The panel was moderated by Sharon Lopez of the Dept of Communications, Mount Carmel College.

The panel felt that there was a need for a more child rights centric approach, especially in the media, while dealing with adoption.

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Child Abuse, Trafficking Probe Targets Romanian Program Led By German Couple

August 28, 2019 05:31 GMT

Romanian authorities say they have busted a human trafficking and child slavery ring in the country’s northwestern Maramures county.

The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) on August 27 raided eight houses as part of an investigation into eight people on suspicion of trafficking and abusing German children who were allegedly beaten and kept in slavelike conditions.

The children, aged 12 to 18 years, were allegedly deprived of food and forced to do exhausting work. Some of them tried to kill themselves, the Romania Journal reported.

Accused supplied boys to couples without children, with daughters but no sons

The Mumbai Police Crime Branch has busted a racket that allegedly supplied boys to couples without children, and to those who had several daughters but no sons.

According to Crime Branch officials, the lid was blown off the racket after police inspector Chandrakant Dalvi from the Crime Branch Unit VI received a tip-off earlier this year. He learnt that a family from Mankhurd had recently sold their newborn son to the gang. A team of Unit VI personnel then worked on the information for nearly two months before picking up Bhagyashree Koli, who runs a surrogacy centre in Mumbai’s eastern suburbs.

Babies for sale

A Crime Branch officer said, “Our information indicated that Ms. Koli had facilitated the sale of a six-day-old boy to a couple in Bhiwandi who had no sons. We questioned her and she ultimately confessed that she had sold one such boy in March.”