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Chilean authorities to help families after unethical adoptions

Now Chilean authorities are to help the families who were separated as a result of international adoptions in the 70s and 80s and who today want to be reunited.

It was announced by the Minister of Justice, Luis Cordero Vega, during a conference in Santiago this weekend.

Since 2018, there has been a criminal investigation in Chile about the suspected irregularities that occurred in connection with the country's adoptions.

Prospective adoptive parents charged with first-degree murder of child in Burlington

Two women have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 12-year-old boy in Burlington and for allegedly assaulting and confining a younger brother, both of whom they were in the process of adopting.

In a news release Friday, Halton police said the charges were laid following a “lengthy investigation” into the death of the boy, who has been described as Indigenous, more than a year ago.

Const. Ryan Anderson said that on Dec. 21, 2022, at around 7:26 p.m., police and other emergency services were called to a home in the New Street and Guelph Line area for a child without vital signs.

Police said they found a 12-year-old boy dead inside the home.

Police would not answer questions about cause of death, or when the death was deemed a homicide, because the case is before the courts.

I thought I was prepared to adopt a child — but the one thing I didn’t know was the most important

Before bringing home daughter Autumn as a newborn in October 2014, adoptive mom Jessica had no clue about black hair care. 

She’s not alone: The rise of transracial parenting, meaning a child of one racial or ethnic group is placed with adoptive parents of a different racial makeup, has exposed an unfortunate knowledge gap that experts say can be emotionally detrimental to the children.

Jessica and her husband had read all the books on adoption, gone through intense home-study visits and sat for countless pre-parenting interviews. 

But, still, the brunette of northern European descent was totally unhip to the do’s and don’ts of nurturing the tremendous thickness of the tot’s tuft. 

“By the time she turned age 1, I knew I needed help,” Jessica, 53, a sales executive from northern New Jersey, told The Post.

US-based couple adopts abandoned baby girl in Jharkhand

Hazaribag (Jharkhand), Mar 1 (PTI) A US-based couple has adopted an eight-month-old girl who was found abandoned in a dustbin in Jharkhand's Hazaribag town in June 2023, a senior district official said on Friday.
    On June 16 last year, some youths found the newborn crying and informed the district administration and Korra police station.
    Deputy Development Commissioner of Hazaribag, Prerena Dikshit, along with officer-in-charge of Korra police station Uttam Kumar Tiwari, recovered the child and transferred her to the newborn ward of Sheikh Bikhari Medical College and Hospital, Hazaribag.
    Dikshit, who also served as the administrator of Sheikh Bihari Medical College and Hospital, directed the hospital superintendent and other doctors to provide care for the baby.
    Upon full recovery, she was handed over to the Child Welfare Department of Hazaribag, said Dikshit.
    Once the child was fully recovered, the Child Welfare Department informed higher authorities, including the Central Adoption Resource Authority, which issued an adoption notice through its portal.
    Subsequently, the authorities of the Child Welfare Committee began searching for the biological parents of the abandoned child, but did not succeed. As per the rules, anyone can adopt the child after 60 days from the issuance of the notice.
    An American couple has now agreed to adopt the child, who is currently eight months old.
    Following the rehabilitation of the child by the American couple on Thursday, Dikshit expressed satisfaction and thanked the couple for adopting the kid. COR BS MNB

Family alleges child killed in Oildale was under foster care at time of death

  • Video shows three-year-old Alejandro Andreas Perez Jr., the child confirmed to have been killed at a home in Oildale on February 9, as well as the accused killer, and reports related to the investigation.
  • The family of the three-year-old child killed in Oildale is speaking out about the death and the pain it's caused them, especially given the child was allegedly in a foster care home at the time of his death.

 

The family of three-year-old Alejandro Andreas Perez Jr. is mourning the loss of the young toddler, especially given the child was allegedly in a foster care home at the time of his death.

"He was one of the sweetest boys you'll ever meet, always full of life, friendly," said the child's grandfather Ed Walton III.

Alejandro Andreas Perez Jr., the 3-year-old killed in Oildale

Jorge Barahona, charged in 2011 twin murder-abuse case, incompetent to stand trial

Jorge Barahona and his wife Carmen were both charged with first-degree murder in the death of 10-year-old Nubia, their adoptive daughter. Her body was found partially decomposed in the back of Jorge's truck on Valentine's Day 2011

 

 

 

 

Third daughter paid for adoption, sold by human-trafficking gang

Recently, Delhi Police has arrested a gang in the case of human trafficking, eight persons including three women and two men from Punjab have been arrested in this gang. One of the arrested persons is a woman related to Mr. Muktsar Sahib. The girl who was being sold is also related to Mr. Muktsar Sahib's Giddarbaha, this girl has been rescued by the Delhi Police. Now the girl's parents have come forward who say that they had two girls earlier and when their third girl was born, a nurse told them that a family in Abohar needed a girl.

The girl was adopted from them on the assurance that the members of this family are in government service. Now they came to know about the entire incident, let us tell you that the alleged involvement of that nurse in this whole gang has also come to light. They had adopted this girl to Abohar's family through Aman Nars and even instead of taking omens at the time of adoption, they adopted the girl by giving omens in the hope that the girl would be brought up in a good family and their child would be happy. will remain

India: Two children ran away. It took them 13 years to get home again

On a hot summer day in June 2010, two Indian children upset with their parents for hitting them left home.

The siblings - 11-year-old Rakhi and seven-year-old Bablu - planned to go to their maternal grandparents who lived just a kilometre away. But a few wrong turns and they were lost.

It's taken them more than 13 years to find their way back - with a lot of help from a child rights activist - to their mother Neetu Kumari.

"I missed my mother every single day," Bablu who grew up in orphanages told me on the phone. "I'm very happy now that I'm back with my family."

Video footage of their reunion at the end of December shows Neetu sobbing as she welcomes Bablu home, embracing him tightly and thanking god for "giving me the joy of holding my son again".

Govt officials swindle millions in child adoption

 

Corruption and delayed investigations are impeding the adoption process for children from Ugandan children’s homes, according to concerns uncovered by The Observer. Presently, Uganda hosts 109 children’s homes across the country, with a significant concentration in the Central region.

These homes must obtain approval from the minister of Gender, specifically the official responsible for children’s welfare and protection, before operation. Despite an estimated 3.5 million abandoned and impoverished children in Uganda, only 9,700 reside in approved homes.