The Supreme Court has granted a further period of three months to the CBI to complete its investigation in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case.

The vacation bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice MR Shah took note of interim status report filed by the CBI in this case.

The bench also directed the investigating agency to conduct investigation on following aspects of the case

(i) the offences alleged under Section 377 IPC.

(ii) the offences under the IT Act regarding video recording of the sexual exploitation of the inmates of the shelter homes,

Tragic stories: many abuses concerning adoption in Haïti

They are heartbreaking stories: parents in Haiti who, under false pretenses, temporarily surrendered their child to the nuns but never saw them again.

They had no idea that their child would be given up for adoption and disappeared abroad. Nieuwsuur made a report.

No real orphans in the orphanages

There has been much wrong with the adoption industry in the poorest country in the western hemisphere, as it has been shown for some time. Birth certificates are often forged and in the 750 orphanages about 80 percent of the children are not orphans at all. Money is the reason for the enormous amount of orphanages. Annually, about one hundred million dollars go to these orphanages. Big business so.

The Supreme Court has granted a further period of three months to the CBI to complete its investigation in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. The vacation bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice MR Shah took note of interim status report filed by the CBI in this case. The bench also directed the investigating agency to conduct investigation on following aspects of the case (i) the offences alleged under Section 377 IPC. Also Read - Genuineness Of Will Can't Be Doubted Merely Because It Was Executed In Favour Of Neighbour: SC [Read Order] (ii) the offences under the IT Act regarding video recording of the sexual exploitation of the inmates of the shelter homes, (iii) the other persons, including the outsiders and officers who were involved and facilitated in the sexual abuse of the inmates who were being abused under intoxication of drugs; and (iv) the illegal trafficking of the girls by this Institute. Also Read - Case Of Death By Single Blow On Vital Part Of Body May Fall Under Section 302 IPC (Murder), Reiterates SC [Read Judgment] CBI has also been directed to submit the final report within a period of three months. In November, last year, the Supreme Court had transferred to the CBI the investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse of the residents of 16 children's homes in the state.

The Supreme Court has granted a further period of three months to the CBI to complete its investigation in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. The vacation bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice MR Shah took note of interim status report filed by the CBI in this case. The bench also directed the investigating agency to conduct investigation on following aspects of the case (i) the offences alleged under Section 377 IPC. Also Read - Genuineness Of Will Can't Be Doubted Merely Because It Was Executed In Favour Of Neighbour: SC [Read Order] (ii) the offences under the IT Act regarding video recording of the sexual exploitation of the inmates of the shelter homes, (iii) the other persons, including the outsiders and officers who were involved and facilitated in the sexual abuse of the inmates who were being abused under intoxication of drugs; and (iv) the illegal trafficking of the girls by this Institute. Also Read - Case Of Death By Single Blow On Vital Part Of Body May Fall Under Section 302 IPC (Murder), Reiterates SC [Read Judgment] CBI has also been directed to submit the final report within a period of three months. In November, last year, the Supreme Court had transferred to the CBI the investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse of the residents of 16 children's homes in the state.

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The Supreme Court has granted a further period of three months to the CBI to complete its investigation in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. The vacation bench of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice MR Shah took note of interim status report filed by the CBI in this case. The bench also directed the investigating agency to conduct investigation on following aspects of the case (i) the offences alleged under Section 377 IPC. Also Read - Genuineness Of Will Can't Be Doubted Merely Because It Was Executed In Favour Of Neighbour: SC [Read Order] (ii) the offences under the IT Act regarding video recording of the sexual exploitation of the inmates of the shelter homes, (iii) the other persons, including the outsiders and officers who were involved and facilitated in the sexual abuse of the inmates who were being abused under intoxication of drugs; and (iv) the illegal trafficking of the girls by this Institute. Also Read - Case Of Death By Single Blow On Vital Part Of Body May Fall Under Section 302 IPC (Murder), Reiterates SC [Read Judgment] CBI has also been directed to submit the final report within a period of three months. In November, last year, the Supreme Court had transferred to the CBI the investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse of the residents of 16 children's homes in the state.

https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/cbi-bihar-shelter-home-rape-case-145463

KOLKATA: Dr Michelle Harrison had everything a career-woman can boast of. A gynaecologist-cum- psychiatrist, she was the

worldwide executive director of Johnson & Johnson Institute for Children and taught at leading universities like Harvard, Rutgers and the University of Pittsburgh. She even successfully battled cancer. But then she quit everything, sold her home in New Jersey and came to Kolkata to be a mother to differently-abled abandoned children. It began with the adoption of her second child, Cecilia Devyani Harrison, in 1984. In 2000, she decided to bring Cecilia to Kolkata. “I wanted to unite her with her biological parents,” said Harrison, who speaks broken Bengali.

In 2001, they went to International Mission of Hope (IMH), the organization from where Cecilia was adopted. At IMH, a mashi surfaced. “We were told she was Cecilia’s biological mother. They even produced a twin sister, a biological father and a grandmother who were pining for her,” she recalled. Since most adopted children have a desire to know their roots, there was no reason not to accept what we were told. It was only after Cecilia overheard something that she felt “didn’t make sense” that Harrison started suspecting something was amiss. She decided to go for a DNA test and discovered Cecilia’s DNA matched none of them.

Moreover, Harrison found that differently-abled kids in several such homes were kept tied to their beds. Her tryst with deceit, falsehood and the appalling state of these children helped make her mind up to do something about them. Immediately after her successful battle against cancer, she sold her New Jersey home and came to Kolkata to build Shishur Sevay, a shelter-cum-facilitating centre in New Alipore’s Sahapur for girls with disability of varying degrees, including microcephaly, autism and cerebral palsy. In 2013, Harrison set up a learning centre called Ichhe Dana on the top floor of Shishur Sevay, where the girls attend classes every day. Three of them will be appearing for the National Institute for Open Schooling examination next year. Harrison also introduced the Sweden-made Tobii Eye Tracker, which allows communication via eye movements. For the first time in India, girls with disabilities could communicate their thoughts and needs using their eyes on a screen. The system is used both in class and for informal communication and is often set up by the older girls to speak with their sisters.

In the course of running Shishur Sevay, Harrison has even tackled extortion calls and veiled threats by realtors. She now spends sleepless nights worrying about the safety of her children. With her resources depleting fast, she is also worrying about funding the needs of her children after her death. Harrison’s daughters — Heather Volik, a lawyer, and Cecilia, a drummer — have set up an organization called Friends of Shishur Sevay in the US to raise funds for their mother’s home. “My daughters are my pillars of strength. Both keep coming to visit me once in a while,” Harrison added.

Adoption children Haiti: DNA match is some hope for reunification

About thirty older men and women sit close together on wooden benches in the dilapidated community building of the Haitian village of La Vallee de Jacmel. One by one they get a cotton swab in the mouth for a DNA test. They hope that it will end a major loss.

They all gave a child to nuns. The nuns sketched a bright future for the children, but the parents were not told that they would be given up for adoption and set off for a faraway country. The promise that the children would return at the age of 18 was not fulfilled.

Now, often decades later, a DNA test offered by the Plan Kiskeya organization is their only hope of reuniting with their missing children. Some parents know that their child was placed in an orphanage that also sent adopted children to the Netherlands.

Biological parents

Luljeta was young and in love. At 18, the young Albanian woman was pregnant and her parents had accepted her boyfriend, who said he ran a restaurant and always seemed to have lots of money. But when it came to the ninth month, everything changed. Luljeta was beaten and locked up for a month until one night her boyfriend bundled her into a dinghy, packed with 18 terrified young girls, heading across the Adriatic for Italy.

'There's no point crying now,' he screamed. 'We're going to sell the baby and you'll end up on the street.'

A couple, she learnt later, had put down a $2,000 deposit for her baby. Her boyfriend was delivering the goods.

Luljeta - who dares not reveal her real name - is one of a few cases now emerging in Italy that suggest human traffickers, no longer satisfied with their income from enslaved prostitutes, are impregnating them and selling their babies.

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Presentation of 'The foundling of Crete'

OVERVEEN Antoinette de Boer signs her book 'De foundeling van Kreta' on Saturday 1 June from 11 am to 3 pm at Primera bookstore (Bloemendaalseweg 234). In this book De Boer (1961) gives an intimate look into her life as a foundling. In her book, the writer goes back to the period of her adoption from Greece, giving a picture of the family in which she ended up in 1963. She describes what she came across as an adopted child during her childhood, adolescence and as an adult: what occupied her, her feelings and the incomprehension she felt because of the loyalty to her two mothers in her life during her search for her roots. Because of her special story as a foundling and her drive in her search, which she started at the age of nineteen, she has received help several times to find her Greek mother. Through various channels she regularly came up with the story of her search in the news: newspapers, magazines and television programs. But in Greece too she has often received help and many years of media attention because of her search and the adventures she experienced.

In the Netherlands there is increasing attention for the foundling. In 2014 the first founding rooms were opened in our country. The rooms are an initiative of the De Protectende Wieg foundation, which wants to prevent women who are unwantedly pregnant from leaving their newborn child on the street, sometimes with fatal consequences. To expel children is prohibited in the Netherlands and therefore punishable. For the time being, the founding chambers in the municipalities are tolerated. Antoinette was abandoned as an 11-day-old baby in a baby flap, anonymous in Greece. She is one of the first of the group of children adopted abroad in the Netherlands. Antoinette recently made the national news in Greece and was there in various newspapers with her announcement that she has written a book with all her experiences as a searching findling.

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OVERVEEN Antoinette de Boer signeert zaterdag 1 juni van 11.00 tot 15.00 uur haar boek 'De vondeling van Kreta' bij de Primera boekhandel (Bloemendaalseweg 234). In dit boek geeft De Boer (1961)een intieme kijk in haar leven als vondeling. De schrijfster gaat in haar boek terug naar de periode van haar adoptie uit Griekenland en geeft daarbij een tijdsbeeld van het gezin waarin zij in 1963 terecht kwam. Zij beschrijft wat zij als adoptiekind tijdens haar jeugd, pubertijd en als volwassene tegen kwam: wat haar bezig hield, haar gevoelens en het onbegrip die zij voelde door de loyaliteit naar haar twee moeders in haar leven tijdens haar zoektocht naar haar roots. Door haar speciale verhaal als vondeling en haar gedrevenheid in haar zoektocht, waarmee zij op haar negentiende mee begon, heeft zij diverse malen hulp gekregen om haar Griekse moeder te vinden. Via verschillende kanalen kwam zij regelmatig met het verhaal van haar zoektocht in het nieuws: kranten, bladen en televisieprogramma's. Maar ook in Griekenland heeft zij menigmaal hulp en jarenlang media-aandacht gehad vanwege haar zoektocht en de avonturen die zij daarin meemaakte.