KOTA: Child Welfare Committee (CWC) on Saturday, in compliance with the order by Rajasthan High Court, sealed the headquarters of Emmanuel Society in Dadwada area of Kota city.

A single bench of Rajasthan High Court, comprising Justice S P Sharma on Wednesday this week, while dismissing the two petitions by the Emmanuel Orphanage Society and school challenging the ceiling and seizure of its office and computers by CWC, ordered to seal its headquarters and to shift the children staying in orphanages to government-run homes.

CWC in compliance with the order by high court sealed the headquarter of Emmanuel Society in Dadwada area of Kota city and also its branch offices, CWC chairman Harish Gurubakshani told.

The management, without getting its orphanage registered in Juvenile Justice Act had run orphanage where around 500 to 600 children were reported to be staying. Later, in order to avoid action, the management set up Jeevan Asha hostel and by fabricating fake identify and other documents of the children, shifted them to the hostel, he added.

As per the order by the high court, the children of the hostel would be shifted to other government run homes within a couple of days, he said adding CWC would now collect the papers and other relevant documents from its headquarter and following investigation of the same would submit its report.

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'Maybe I robbed a mother of her child'

Adoptees and their parents consider a lawsuit against the State after irregularities in adoptions from an Indonesian children's home.

Anouk Eigenraam

May 30, 2018 at 22:49

Finally, Ireland is listening to long-ignored campaigners

Thursday, May 31, 2018

By Conall Ó Fátharta

Irish Examiner Reporter

Speaking to adoption campaigners in the last 24 hours about the St Patrick’s Guild revelations, you are met with a mixture of bemusement and amusement.

Adoption campaigners urge immediate probe

Thursday, May 31, 2018

By Conall Ó Fátharta

Irish Examiner Reporter

Adoption campaigners want an immediate inquiry into the scale of illegal adoptions — a call they have repeatedly made for years.

Tusla knew of illegal adoptions in 2016

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Conall Ó Fátharta and Elaine Loughlin

Tusla was recording illegal adoptions and birth registrations in 2016 — two years before the agency’s revelation that it had uncovered unlawful registrations at St Patrick’s Guild.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil yesterday an independent review into the cases between 1946 and 1969 was ordered after Tusla said it recently uncovered 126 cases where births were illegally registered.

State’s U-turn on illegal adoptions

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

By Conall Ó Fátharta

Irish Examiner Reporter

Finally there will be a sample audit of all records held by the State, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

Rapist Briton had tried to adopt children he later abused

By Maureen Ongala | Published Wed, May 30th 2018

Keith Morris, 72 , and a Briton from Hull, was convicted in his country for defiling Kenyan girls.

Convicted paedophile Keith Morris tried to legally adopt some of the children he sexually molested, according to court documents The Standard has unearthed. Morris and his alleged wife Julie Sharp lodged a Motion seeking legal custody of eight children from Maweni village after they reportedly reached an agreement with the minors’ parents. ALSO READ: MP warns over sex abuse payments During his trial in a UK court, which ended in conviction last week, the prosecution demonstrated that the 72-year-old pensioner befriended parents of the children he was later charged with molesting. Legal guardianship Records at a court in Kilifi show that Morris’ effort to secure legal guardianship of these children were thwarted by Kenyan officials, who doubted his marriage to Julie and also his motivation of seeking to take over the big number of children. The doubts were worsened by the fact Morris could not demonstrate whether he and Julie intended to transfer the children to England or live with them in Kenya.

There was also suspicion that the consent by parents to free their children for adoption was procured through duress or money inducement. The Standard has established that Morris lost the application at the Kilifi Law Courts on July 21 2016. On the day of the ruling, Morris told court he required a fast process because he was about to leave Kenya. “I have booked a return ticket and unless the court hears the application, I will not be around,” said Morris in the supposed urgent application. Although the application was characterised as urgent, and lodged while Morris was armed with an air ticket, records show the convict did not leave Kenya until December 15, 2016.

Rapist Briton had tried to adopt children he later abused

By Maureen Ongala | Published Wed, May 30th 2018

Keith Morris, 72 , and a Briton from Hull, was convicted in his country for defiling Kenyan girls.

Convicted paedophile Keith Morris tried to legally adopt some of the children he sexually molested, according to court documents The Standard has unearthed. Morris and his alleged wife Julie Sharp lodged a Motion seeking legal custody of eight children from Maweni village after they reportedly reached an agreement with the minors’ parents. ALSO READ: MP warns over sex abuse payments During his trial in a UK court, which ended in conviction last week, the prosecution demonstrated that the 72-year-old pensioner befriended parents of the children he was later charged with molesting. Legal guardianship Records at a court in Kilifi show that Morris’ effort to secure legal guardianship of these children were thwarted by Kenyan officials, who doubted his marriage to Julie and also his motivation of seeking to take over the big number of children. The doubts were worsened by the fact Morris could not demonstrate whether he and Julie intended to transfer the children to England or live with them in Kenya.

There was also suspicion that the consent by parents to free their children for adoption was procured through duress or money inducement. The Standard has established that Morris lost the application at the Kilifi Law Courts on July 21 2016. On the day of the ruling, Morris told court he required a fast process because he was about to leave Kenya. “I have booked a return ticket and unless the court hears the application, I will not be around,” said Morris in the supposed urgent application. Although the application was characterised as urgent, and lodged while Morris was armed with an air ticket, records show the convict did not leave Kenya until December 15, 2016.

Decades Of Torment: Serbian Parents Demand Answers On Missing Babies

May 23, 2018 19:22 GMT

Alan Crosby

Iva Martinovic

Mirjana Novokmet shows her missing baby's birth certificate in front of her home in Zemun, near Belgrade, in 2013.

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