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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Whitt, Lester E Date: Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:07 AM Subject: RE: investigation in Ethiopia To: Charissa Urban Dear Charissa, Thank you for your e-mail inquiry, and we would like you to know that we share your concerns about adoption issues in Ethiopia. We have had the chance to review the videos that were presented on the YouTube page. These are the same videos submitted by Sue Hedberg at Celebrate Children International. We have had a chance to review these videos and to review the documentation submitted by the local government entities that accompanied these relinquishments. Two US Embassy Fraud Prevention Assistants watched these videos with the consular officer. We were not able to find any irregularities in either video. Although someone unfamiliar with the adoption process may see these videos as unusual, in fact many adoption agencies in Ethiopia interview the birth parents – on video – as a way to verify the parent’s understanding of the adoption process as well as create a record for the adoptive child to view someday. Perhaps CCI could have used a more professional videographer and a prepared script to prepare the prospective adoptive parents for the shock that this process may cause, thus preventing the level of discomfort that you are feeling. However, we saw no misconduct or irregularities in these videos. The parents who relinquished these children had done so even before the children had been referred to your family. Since then, it appears that your family has sent several friends, as well as media representatives, with the apparent goal of discovering if the families had been coerced into relinquishing these children. From what we understand, the parents have told these people the same story that you can see on the video, that they did indeed mean to relinquish their children. They have told the same story to four different sets of people and each time the story remains the same, that the families legally relinquished their children and the children were placed in an orphanage and referred to the Urban family. The relinquishments are legal, according to the laws of the country of Ethiopia. If you have any additional information that you would like to be reviewed, please feel free to send it. However, please be aware that since visa's are not pending on the children in question, and our preliminary inquiry did not show any criminal fraud/intent, this case will have a lower priority than others. Sincerely, Lester Whitt Special Agent Lester Whitt American Embassy Addis Ababa Assistant Regional Security Officer - Investigator Mobile: 0911-51-17-53 WhittLE@State.Gov

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A woman in the city was cheated of ₹7,500 on the promise of adopting a baby.

Radha (name changed) was shown a video by her sister, where with a payment of ₹12,500, a baby could be adopted from a hospital. Radha had emailed the organisation, mentioning the video regarding the adoption. They contacted her through a fake email of the Child Welfare Board, asking her to pay the amount and collect the baby at the Government Children Hospital in Egmore between 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Ms. Radha paid ₹7,500 of the total amount, but could not pay the rest due to network issues. “I visited the hospital to verify if the adoption was authentic. My husband and I have been trying to have a child for 14 years. We even approached the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) in the State, but due to the elaborate process and long wait time, we did not go through with it,” she said.

According to sources in the hospital, this is the first time such a scam was done online. “We spoke to the victim. She was not aware of the scam,” said a doctor from the hospital. The authorities have registered a complaint with the police.

Speaking on the incident, an official from the Child Welfare Committee said that this is recurring scams. “There is a need to create awareness on adoption among the public. Parents can adopt children only through the CARA and the State Adoption Resource Agency,” he added.

When everything else had been tried and failed, my wife said, "Why don't we adopt?" This began a complicated process full of bureaucratic hurdles and years of waiting that continues to this day.

Once, I thought, now's the time. That was about a year ago, on January 26, 2023, to be exact. There was an email in my inbox from Ms. Barth, an employee of the adoption agency Eltern-Kind-Brücke. I went over to my wife's study and said, "We have news from Thailand!" She asked, "Good news?"

Hard to say.

Ms. Barth wrote, "Thailand has given us some information on the current situation. Do you have a spare moment for a phone call in the next few days?"

GRONINGEN - The Public Prosecution Service is prosecuting 19-year-old Jamesley S. from Warffum for the murder of his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend Jet from the Groningen village of Winsum. The Public Prosecution Service found Snapchat videos on his phone that showed the young man had made a plan to kill the girl. On February 21, he waited for Jet in Winsum for an hour. When she was near her parental home, he stabbed her in the back without saying anything.

This was announced on Thursday during a first preliminary hearing in the criminal case in the Groningen court. Jamesley S. has confessed. Jet allegedly wanted to end her relationship with Jamesley S., but according to the Public Prosecution Service, "no motive has yet been found" during the investigation.

That one stab was fatal for Jet. She was found seriously injured on the AS Blécourtlaan and died shortly afterwards. Jamesley, in addition to the knife, also appeared to have taken a full-face helmet, ski goggles and a bag of clothing to Winsum. He was quickly arrested and confessed that he had killed Jet.

During the first session, a visibly affected Jamesley S. remained silent. He seemed intimidated by the full room with emotional relatives and friends of Jet, a camera crew and many journalists writing.

After 27 years of separation, Ms. Nguyen Trung Hiep tearfully reunited with her newborn twin daughters, who had been entrusted to a French couple to raise. She said, "I just hope you don't hate me."

Two days after meeting her biological daughter who came from France to Vietnam to find her, Mrs. Nguyen Trung Hiep (55 years old, residing in Xuyen Moc commune, Xuyen Moc district, Ba Ria province - Vung Tau) happily recounted the unexpected reunion after 27 years of separation and the difficult circumstances of the family during these years.

Speaking to VietNamNet reporter , Ms. Hiep said she was born and raised in Xuyen Moc commune, Xuyen Moc district. In 1997, after going through a "marriage," she married Mr. Nguyen Van Tien (residing in Hoa Hiep commune, Xuyen Moc district) and later gave birth to twin girls, Nguyen Thi Kim Hong and Nguyen Thi Kim Loan, in October 1998.

She said that at that time, her family was in a very difficult situation. She and her husband had to work for others, but they still had no money to eat. At that time, learning that many foreign couples were coming to Vietnam to adopt children, they intended to give one of the two Hong sisters up for adoption in the hope that their child would have a better life.

In Switzerland, 14 cantons want to work more closely together to help adopted individuals find their biological parents. In the past, not everything was always done by the book.

Why were there so many international adoptions in the past?

In recent years, as economic and social conditions in Switzerland improved – especially for unmarried mothers – there were fewer children available to adopt within the small Alpine state. This led to some people looking to adopt from abroad. From the 1960s onwards, there was a wave of adoptions from Asian countries, and later from South America and Africa. From 1989, there was an increase in adoptions from Eastern Europe.

Fertility issues were not always the main reason for adopting. Some Swiss couples felt as though it was a “humanitarian act”. They wanted to rescue children from poverty due to their social or religious beliefs and offer them a better life with educational opportunities.

Developments in certain countries were also partly responsible. For example, the South Korean government reduced funding for social welfare systems for unmarried mothers and poor families and instead promoted large-scale international adoptions until the 1980s. In Sri Lanka, an adoption industry developed: lawyers, social workers, midwives, chauffeurs and hotels all profited from international adoptions.

Rayagada,(Badal Tah) : District Collector approved the adoption order of a girl child by a foreign couple from New Zealand

The girl child was handed over to the couple at IDS Specialised Adoption Agency Center in the presence of 
ADM Nihar Kamhar, Members of the Child Wlefare Commitee and officers of the District Child Protection Unit.
The Secretary of the Institution Devendra Kumar Beher and other staff were present in this hand over session.