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Social Worker Busted For Selling Babies

Monday, April 04, 2011 | Comments: 3

Social worker Sharon Mushokabanji has been busted for selling orphaned children for adoption, reports Jacques Pauw for the City Press.

Mushokabanji has since been dismissed for fraud after it emerged that she had faked her qualifications and registration with the Council for Social Service Professions. She was found by her employer, Child Welfare, to have charged illegal “adoption fees” ranging between R400 and R6,000.

City Press reports that it has obtained paperwork verifying the fraud and that police have launched an investigation into a potential child-trafficking and adoption syndicate. Mushokabanji has denied the charges and even alleged to have information on Child Welfare that she offered the City Press in return for them suppressing the story.

Romania rethinks adoption ban despite child-trafficking concerns

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | 26.04.2011

Romania rethinks adoption ban despite child-trafficking concerns

 

 

 

Adoptions, Romania: "institutionalization is still the rule, not an exception"

Date: 12-04-11

Adoptions, Romania: "institutionalization is still the rule, not an exception"

Azota Popescu, president of the Catharsis of Brasov, sent to both chambers of the Romanian Parliament in a letter which challenges the project presented by the Executive on the law on adoptions. The new bill is quite different from that presented by president of the Brasov last year.

According to Popescu, the government insists on maintaining the provision that international adoption of Romanian children can be made ??only in situations where the adopter (or a spouse of the adoptive couple)is relative within the third degree with a child for which has started the adoption procedure.

The provision is effective from 2004, when, were virtually closed international adoptions. Furthermore, according to Popescu nitrogen in this situation even national adoptions are facilitated , as is maintained expression of the mandatory adoption , made ??in writing by all the relatives to the fourth grade.

Comment Gerard Lucon (Handicap International)

Par Gerard Lucon (xxx.xxx.xxx.143) 1er avril 13:08
Gerard Lucon

c’est marrant je suis de la même generation mais je n’ai pas grandit avec comme référence l’ex-pétainiste arriviste tueur de grévistes et d’algériens, l’infâme françois mitterrand

de plus avoir Delors comme référence est une démonstration du caractère du bonhomme, Jacques Delors, ami de François de Combret, lui même ancien conseiller de Giscard d’Estaing, banque Lazard, exporteur d’enfants roumains vers la France jusqu’au moment où la Roumanie a stoppé le trafic.... et membre de l’Opus Dei

De fréquentable sur les 3 idoles, il ne reste que De Gaulle ..... mais quand "gant de crin" a-t-il été gaulliste ?????

vous oubliez dans sa biographie la rougeur de son visage qui n’est pas due à une couperose avancée mais au fait qu’il continue à se maquiller avec un gant de crin

et le plus grave dans sa triste carrière, qu’il ait fait 4 enfants dans la ségolénitude, prenant ainsi le risque d’une multiplication incontrolée sur notre territoire

Mr. Sven Olof Edvin Persson vs Indian Council For Child Welfare on 1 April, 2011

IN THE COURT OF SMT. PRATIBHA RANI

DISTRICT JUDGE-I : DELHI

GUARDIANSHIP CASE No. 54/2011

Unique I.D No.02401C0093032011

IN THE MATTER OF:

'Adoptie uit Haïti kan'

'Adoptie uit Haïti kan'

Iris Pronk − 31/03/11, 07:29

Adopteren uit Haïti is wél verantwoord, vinden aspirant-adoptieouders. Dat staatssecretaris Teeven van justitie de adopties uit dit land nog steeds opschort, is volgens hen 'niet in het belang van het kind'. In een petitie vragen ze Teeven om 'per direct' in actie te komen. Justitie zal later reageren.

"In tehuizen zitten nu heel veel kinderen te wachten op ouders," zegt Macky Hupkes van de Nederlandse Adoptiestichting (NAS), die bemiddelt bij adoptie van kinderen uit Haïti. Het omgekeerde is ook waar: op de wachtlijst van de NAS staan tientallen Nederlandse gezinnen die verlangen naar een Haïtiaans kind.

Een Nederlandse delegatie zou deze maand poolshoogte gaan nemen in Haïti, om te onderzoeken of de adoptieprocedure weer 'zuiver' kan verlopen. Vorig jaar repten verschillende internationale rapporten nog over corruptie, chaos en kinderhandel in het land dat in januari 2010 door een aardbeving werd geteisterd.

Maar omdat er nog geen nieuwe Haïtiaanse regering is, heeft de Nederlandse overheid de reis uitgesteld. Tot ergernis van de aspirant-ouders en de NAS, die vlak na de aardbeving via een luchtbrug voor het laatst 109 Haïtiaanse kinderen naar Nederland haalde.

"Het ministerie neemt nu wel heel erg de tijd," zegt Hupkes. "Intussen hebben landen als de Verenigde Staten, Canada, Duitsland en Zwitserland de adopties al hervat."Volgens haar is de orde in Haïti inmiddels voldoende hersteld. "De kinderbescherming functioneert, de rechtbank ook. Adoptie uit Haïti is geen gladde weg, maar we kennen de risico's en we kunnen maatregelen nemen om die te omzeilen."Kinderhandel is het belangrijkste risico, en dat denkt de NAS goeddeels te kunnen uitsluiten door géén wezen te adopteren. "Tenzij ook daadwerkelijk is vastgesteld dat ze wees zijn, en er een deugdelijk rapport over hun herkomst ligt."

Wel in aanmerking komen kinderen die zijn afgestaan voor adoptie. Hupkes: "Daarbij moet duidelijk zijn dat de ouders vrijwillig afstand doen, dat ze beseffen dat hun kind naar het buitenland gaat en dat de adoptie onomkeerbaar is." De NAS wil ook dat deze ouders een DNA-test doen. "Daarmee kunnen we niet de vrijwilligheid, maar wel de bloedband vaststellen. Zo wordt kinderhandel erg moeilijk."

Maar de lobby van de aspirant-ouders en de NAS overtuigt nog niet iedereen. Volgens Unicef was de Haïtiaanse wetgeving rond adoptie ook vóór de aardbeving slecht geregeld. Haïti heeft pas deze maand een handtekening gezet onder het Haags adoptieverdrag, dat kinderhandel moet tegengaan. Maar het duurt nog wel even voordat ze het in praktijk kunnen brengen. "De Haïtiaanse overheid kan een zorgvuldige procedure gewoon niet garanderen", aldus een Unicef-woordvoerder.

Vierjährige Nicoleta darf zunächst in Deutschland bleiben

Vierjährige Nicoleta darf zunächst in Deutschland bleiben

31.03.11 | 19:30 Uhr

Die beiden 'Mütter' von Nicoleta T. begegnen sich auf dem Gang des Landgerichtes Schweinfurt. Korinna B. hat das inzwischen vierjährige Kind seit 2006 bei sich in der bayerischen Rhön. Die leibliche Mutter Gabriela G. aus Rumänien hielt ihr Kind zuletzt im Januar 2007 im Arm. Sie hatte es nach Deutschland gegeben, damit es hier medizinisch behandelt werden kann.

Vierjährige Nicoleta darf zunächst in Deutschland bleiben

Schweinfurt (dapd-bay). Beide Frauen sind als Zeugen im Berufungsverfahren gegen Estera S. wegen Kinderhandels geladen.

Imbroglio juridique pour les enfants haïtiens adoptés

Legal tangle for Haitian children adopted

an article

By The Editors

Posted on 31/03/2011

The children recently arrived from Haiti are found in a legal limbo. A parents' association accuses the French authorities and has seized the State Council.

Investigating alleged illegal adoption of tapatías children

Investigating alleged illegal adoption of tapatías children
Georgina Vallejo
Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:37

Lucero and Estela, eight and seven years old, were assigned to an Italian couple.

The president of the Human Rights Commission of Jalisco (CEDHJ), Felipe de Jesus Alvarez Cibrian, confirmed that the defense agency has already begun the investigation regarding the alleged illegal adoption of two girls tapatías by an Italian couple. The complaint was filed by the Foundation for Stolen and Missing Child CA (Find) on the grounds that the State Council on the Family (CEF) of DIF Jalisco, violated several laws to ensure that the sisters Lucero and Estela Perez Velez could be candidates adopted in record time.


"It was processed, the complaint has been received [was admitted to the number 2015/11/V] and has been turned over to the Fifth Inspectorate and given all the speed, the drive to resolve it with opportunity, as all complaints go to bottom, "said the ombudsman.

Cibrian Alvarez said that "it is important the participation of the complaining party to relatives of evidence, and we for our part we will also appropriate to be able to get the legal truth and historical truth." At the same time, announced that for the purpose "to give due prominence to the track" regarding complaints against the FSB, issued a special report next week. "It's definitely an issue that should insist, there are several complaints, some that are not completed and not rule out the possibility of coming over recommendations" and said: In 2010 there were twenty complaints against the said Council and the 2011 are two.

Interviewed separately, the FSB spokesman, Ruben Reynoso Flores stated that it incurred in an illegal adoption of Perez Velez sisters. "The word illegal adoption does not exist, because an adoption is given and if there is obviously no items to offer as not given, because Civil Code does not provide legal or illegal adoption is a term misused."

Following clarification of semantics, said that in January 2005 asked the group home Born to Succeed reports on the status of the sisters, which said the shelter, the 25th of this month which were only visited by his grandfather.
Reynoso Flores says the family court judge issued edicts to appear people who believe in law and notified the grandparents who was conducting the trial of parental loss. Find and Elvira Velez Perez, Lucero's older sister, Estela, ensure that the family was not aware of it (Public Goals, 25 and March 30, 2011).

Plea to find the loss of custody of only two of the three sisters who were sent by the prosecution at the hostel said, Reynoso said is that "we only made available to two, we can not release to third but there is the willingness of the prosecuting authority. "

Estela Lucero and girls, ages eight and seven years old, were assigned to the Italian Aberto Big Bertha and Anna Maria on October 5, 2006 for a period of coexistence. "Empathy is a process supervised by a psychologist, if they see that there is click or not the adopted child with the adoptive parents", which came with the aforementioned couple. "Whenever there was the click withdraws adopted children."
In less than a month, the November 16, 2006, were given to another couple: Rinaldo Folco and Patricia Campiani, yes finally passed the period of empathy.

Elvira on the desire of returning to see her sisters, Ruben Reynoso admitted that it is legally difficult, but noted that they are okay.

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Investigan presunta adopción ilegal de niñas tapatías
Georgina Vallejo
Jueves, 31 de Marzo de 2011 09:37

En lista de espera 240 parejas que solicitaron adoptar a un menor: DIF Estatal
Jalisco registra primera muerte por influenza H1N1, fue caso “importado”
Cancelan película inédita del Santo en Guadalajara por desnudos
Gobernador de Jalisco y rector de la UdeG piden crédito
Se rehúsa Cardenal a pagar cuotas abusivas de agua potable

Lucero y Estela, de ocho y siete años de edad, fueron asignadas a un pareja de italianos.

El presidente de la Comisión Estatal de Derechos Humanos de Jalisco (CEDHJ), Felipe de Jesús Álvarez Cibrián, confirmó que el organismo defensor ya inició la indagatoria respecto a la presunta adopción ilegal de dos niñas tapatías por parte de un matrimonio italiano. La queja fue presentada por la Fundación para Niños Robados y Desaparecidos AC (Find) por considerar que el Consejo Estatal de la Familia (CEF) del DIF Jalisco, violó varias disposiciones legales para lograr que las hermanas Lucero y Estela Pérez Velez pudieran ser candidatas a adopción en un tiempo récord.


“Ya se dio trámite, la queja ha sido recibida [se admitió con el número 2015/11/V] y ha sido turnada a la Quinta Visitaduría y se le dará toda la celeridad, el impulso para resolverla con oportunidad, como todas las quejas iremos a fondo”, aseguró el ombudsman.

Álvarez Cibrián adelantó que “será importante la participación de la parte quejosa para poder allegar de pruebas, y nosotros por nuestra parte también haremos lo que corresponda para poder llegar a obtener la verdad jurídica y la verdad histórica”. A la par, anunció que para efectos “de dar la importancia que merece el tema” relativo a las quejas contra el CEF, emitirá un informe especial la semana próxima. “Definitivamente es un tema en que se debe de insistir, hay diversas quejas, otras que no se concluyen y tampoco descartamos la posibilidad de que vengan más recomendaciones”, dijo y apuntó: en 2010 se presentaron veinte quejas contra el citado Consejo y este 2011 van dos.

Entrevistado por separado, el vocero del CEF, Rubén Reynoso Flores manifestó que no se incurrió en una adopción ilegal de las hermanitas Pérez Velez. “La palabra de adopciones ilegales no existe, porque una adopción se da y si obviamente no hay los elementos para brindarse pues no se da, porque en el Código Civil no contempla adopciones ilegales o legales, es un término mal utilizado”.

Tras la aclaración semántica, mencionó que en enero de 2005 se solicitó a la casa hogar Nacidos para Triunfar informes sobre la situación de las hermanas, a lo cual contestó el albergue —el día 25 de ese mes— que únicamente eran visitadas por su abuelo.
Reynoso Flores asegura que el juez de lo familiar publicó edictos para que comparecieran las personas que se creyeran con derecho y notificó a los abuelos que se estaba llevando a cabo el juicio de pérdida de patria potestad. Find y Elvira Velez Pérez, la hermana mayor de Lucero y Estela, aseguran que la familia no estaba enterada de ello (Público Milenio, 25 y 30 de marzo de 2011).

Sobre el motivo para buscar la pérdida de la patria potestad de sólo dos de las tres hermanas que fueron enviadas por el Ministerio Público al albergue citado, Reynoso dijo se debe a que “sólo nos pusieron a disposición a dos, no podemos liberar a una tercera sino se tiene la disposición por parte de la autoridad ministerial”.

Las niñas Lucero y Estela, de ocho y siete años de edad, fueron asignadas a los italianos Aberto Berta y Anna María Grande el 5 de octubre de 2006 para una etapa de convivencia. “Es un proceso de empatía supervisado por un psicólogo, si ven que existe clic o no del menor adoptado con los adoptantes”, que no se dio con la citada pareja. “Toda vez que no hubo el clic con los niños adoptados se desiste”.
En menos de un mes, el 16 de noviembre de 2006, se entregaron a otra pareja: Rinaldo Folco y Patricia Campiani, que finalmente sí aprobaron el periodo de empatía.

Sobre el deseo de Elvira, de volver a ver a sus hermanas, Rubén Reynoso admitió que jurídicamente es difícil, pero señaló que se encuentran bien.

Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek Lawmakers Reluctant to Lift International Adoption Freeze

Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek Lawmakers Reluctant to Lift International Adoption Freeze
March 30, 2011 - 11:31am, by Beishe Bulan
Waiting for a home: Children at a Bishkek orphanage. (Photo: David Trilling)
Waiting for a home: Children at a Bishkek orphanage on February 17. (Photo: David Trilling)
Four-year-old Kaleb speaks English and likes to draw. He shows talent as a pianist and is learning how to read. He has even visited the Kyrgyzstan Embassy in Washington to meet officials from his native country.
Until he was eight months old, Kaleb was Kalychbek Baymyrzaev, an orphan in Kyrgyzstan. Scott and Kami DeBoer of Dayton, Ohio, adopted him in October 2007, just before Kyrgyzstan placed a moratorium on international adoptions. “Kaleb knows that he is adopted and that he was born in Kyrgyzstan,” Scott told EurasiaNet.org.
The first six months in America were difficult. “When we first met Kaleb, he was only 11 pounds. That is very tiny for an eight-month-old. He was not getting enough to eat. He was not sitting up or rolling. He had a lot of trouble sleeping and had night terrors. We kept reassuring him that we were there and after six months he was sleeping through the night. Later he began to smile,” said Kami.
Scott and Kami are waiting to adopt another Kyrgyz boy, Bakyt. When they met in February 2008, he was two months old; now he is over three. “We did not think it would take very long to bring him home. We will keep waiting for Bakyt,” Scott said. “He is a part of our family.”
In 2008, responding to local rumors that foreigners were adopting babies to harvest their organs, the Kyrgyz government imposed a moratorium on international adoptions. Since then, American families, including the DeBoers, have been waiting to bring home 65 children whose adoptions were in progress when the freeze was announced. According to the Ministry of Social Protection, 30 of the 65 orphans have special health conditions and need regular treatment that is difficult to find in Kyrgyzstan. Two have died. Families in Kyrgyzstan have adopted only four.
Since the collapse of Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s administration last spring, new officials have promised to lift the moratorium and allow the adoptions to proceed. But Minister of Social Protection Aygul Ryskulova, who served as Minister of Labor, Employment and Migration under the old regime, says the government is just too busy to deal with the adoptions. What’s more, concerns linger about the process and the Americans’ motivations. “The facts are still being investigated,” Ryskulova said of the motivations behind the original freeze. “During the last three years the Kyrgyz government found out the whereabouts of most of the children [who had been adopted prior to the ban]. Some of them were adopted by Israeli families, some by Germans, some of them by US parents. But we still don’t know where some children are. We don’t have an exact number of internationally adopted children, where they were sent, how they live now. We have to find out this information.”
The United States has urged the new government to speed the investigation and lift the ban. In February, Ambassador Susan Jacobs, Special Advisor to the Office of Children's Issues in the State Department, traveled to Bishkek to assure local officials that Washington will regularly inform them about the adopted children's lives in the United States until they turn 18, according to local media reports.
MP Shirin Aitmatova, who has pushed for the adoption process to be reformed, says her colleagues in parliament have difficulties understanding the urgency of the issue, given the wide array of social and economic challenges facing Kyrgyzstan.
Moreover, she says, anyone wishing to help with reforms must combat the persistent rumors that foreigners are using the Kyrgyz children for profit. “There was fear that children could potentially be used as organ donors. Some people also assume that since American families that adopt receive certain financial benefits and tax breaks, they must be doing it less out of the goodness of their hearts and rather to supplement their income. Many unfounded ideas circulate in the local population regarding foreigners who express the wish to adopt local children,” Aitmatova explained.
In 2007, Mala Tyler adopted a Kyrgyz boy, Beck, and brought him home to Concord, New Hampshire. She urges Bishkek to lift the moratorium, arguing that the delay only hurts the children. “If the Kyrgyz government has concerns about the welfare of the adopted children, then they need not look any further than the children who are already home. They are loved, they are cherished, they are happy. Relinquishing a child, whether by a parent or by a country, is surely not an easy decision -- certainly not to be taken lightly -- but these children have homes and parents and siblings waiting for them. They have a life full of love waiting for them,” Tyler said.
Yet it seems a knee-jerk fear remains a persistent challenge to any hopes for reform.
A parliamentary deputy and former human rights ombudsman, MP Tursunbai Bakir uulu, says that Kyrgyz society is right to be concerned about how these children, often living in underfunded institutions in Kyrgyzstan, will be treated abroad. “There are so many stories when adopted children were abused, humiliated, even killed. I don’t support international adoption,” he told EurasiaNet.org.
Editor's note: 
Beishe Bulan is the pseudonym for a Kyrgyz journalist.