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Emneord: adoption, korruption
Anders Christensen, bestyrelsesformand for AC Børnehjælp. Foto: a-c.dk

»Man skal ikke ramme de forkerte, som i dette tilfælde er børnene og de kommende adoptivforældre. Men i sagen her handler det jo dybest set om, at der er nogle der svindler de indiske myndigheder. Og det kan vi aldrig gardere os helt imod. Vi kan være meget sikre på, at det ikke sker, men det kan jo ske. Det kan jo ske overalt, også i Danmark,« siger Anders Christensen, der er bestyrelsesformand for AC Børnehjælp. Det er et af de to danske firmaer, der formidler kontakten mellem kommende adoptivforældre i Danmark og indiske børn fra børnehjem.

Han forstår godt, hvorfor Dansk Folkeparti og andre partier gerne vil bekæmpe snyd i adoptionspapirerne fra indiske børnehjem.

»Men det virker lidt som en hurtig løsning fra politikerne, hvor der bare skal ske noget hurtigt. Og der rammer man de forkerte, synes jeg,« siger bestyrelsesformanden.

Han mener ikke, at et fuldt stop er den rette løsning, og foreslår i stedet nogle fælles regler for vestlige adoptionsbureauer.

»I øjeblikket er der en enorm stor efterspørgsel på de adoptionsbørn. Men det stresser jo vilkårene for adoptionsreglerne. Det har vi sagt tidligere, og gør det gerne igen. Det vi appellerer til, er hjælp fra myndighederne. Vi skal have et bredere europæisk samarbejde. Så længe Frankrig, Italien og Spanien render rundt og gør, hvad der passer dem, så er det svært for os andre overhovedet at være der. Det er ikke alle adoptionskravene fra bl.a. indiske børnehjem, som vi hverken kan eller vil efterleve,« siger bestyrelsesformanden.

Antallet af børn fra Indien er i dag så få, at kun et fåtal af danske forældre adopterer et indisk barn.

Få partnere at samarbejde med

»Vores krav og standarder til adoptioner er så høje, at det formindsker antallet af mulige samarbejdspartnere. Men også hvilke børnehjem, der vil arbejde med os. Indien er blevet meget lille for Skandinavien, som ellers tidligere tog mange adoptivbørn derfra. Simpelthen fordi vi ikke har den store lyst til at være der. Vi er meget omhyggelige med at vælge samarbejdspartnere. Når man er meget omhyggelig med samarbejdspartnere, er der pludselig ikke så mange tilbage. Men det har vi det fint med. Der er jo nogle krav, man skal efterleve med betaling, og hvordan der eksempelvis skal betales. De krav efterlever vi selvfølgelig, men der er nogle, der ikke gider samarbejde med os. Og nogle, vi ikke gider samarbejde med,« siger Anders Christensen.

»Det tynder ud i vores kontaktmuligheder til Indien. Men så længe vi bare har et godt og tillidsfuldt forhold til dem, vi arbejder sammen med, er vi glade. Det bliver dyrere for os og for forældrene, men det er der ikke noget at gøre ved. Der findes gode mennesker i Indien, som vi forsøger at samarbejde med. Så findes der dårlige mennesker; dem forsøger vi at undgå.«

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Indiske Ramesh Kulkarni blev franarret sine børn på det indiske børnehjem, Preet Mandir tilbage i 2002. Han afleverede dem på hjemmet, da han ikke havde økonomi til at forsørge dem. De papirer, Ramesh Kulkarni skrev under på, gav børnehjemmet retten til børnene. Siden er et af børnene endt i Danmark. En korrupt politimand i 2007 stod i ledtog med børnehjemmet Preet Mandir. Det indiske forbundspolitis undersøgelse viser, at flere personer i CARA er korrupte og i ledtog med Preet Mandir-børnehjemmet.

Adoption home scams give rise to a legit worry...

Adoption home scams give rise to a legit worry...

By: Alifiya Khan

Date: 2010-06-21

Place: Pune

Children with medical problems will not find parents if scandals keep foreigners and NRIs away from city, fear adoption centres

MPs calling for stop to India adoptions

Monday, 21 June 2010 09:49 RC News
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A children’s home and local police in India together helped to carry out illegal adoptions that sent children to Denmark
Members of parliament from both ends of the political spectrum are pushing for a ban on adoptions from India after reports that children have either been stolen or taken from their parents under false pretences.
Government ally Danish People’s Party and the opposition Socialist People’s Party have called for a halt on adoptions from India after revelations made by public broadcaster DR’s ‘21 Søndag’ programme this week.
The most serious allegations of illegally selling children are against children’s home Preet Mandirt in the city of Púne. Indian authorities – who had in 2007 denied that any illegal activity was being conducted by the home – have now arrested a police officer in connection with the case and revoked the home’s right to conduct adoption procedures.
DR originally shed light on problems with adoptions from India in 2007, when it aired a documentary detailing the circumstances of a man who agreed to send his children to Preet Mandirt after his wife died due to complications from childbirth.
He later discovered that the children were no longer at the home and had all been adopted by Danes.
DR’s coverage of the Indian police’s recent arrests and confirmation that the adoptions had taking place illegally prompted the calls for the ban.

Board looks at Indian adoptions again

The Danish Family Agency is not immediately prepared to take a decision on whether adoptions from India should again be closed, as DF demands. The board will first see the new information from the Indian police.

 


The Family Agency will look at the new information from India before deciding whether to close adoptions from the country.

This throws couples who are on a waiting list or who have adopted children from India into uncertainty.

Following new information from the federal police in India, which reveals corruption far up in the Indian adoption authorities, the Danish People's Party has demanded that adoption from the country be closed.

Big money to be made in the adoption trade

Big money to be made in the adoption trade
If ever there was a scandal which called for the full glare of publicity it is the highly secretive system which allows thousands of children to be sent for forced adoption, writes Christopher Booker. 
 

By Christopher Booker
Published: 6:32PM BST 19 Jun 2010
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Sir Bob Geldof who has attacked the UK?s 'state-sanctioned kidnap'
On June 3, a 17-year-old Staffordshire girl, living with her parents and seven months pregnant, was horrified to receive a letter which began: “Dear Corrinne, I am the new allocated social worker for your unborn child. We have serious concerns about your ability to care for your unborn baby. We are so worried that we intend on going to Court to apply for an Order that will allow us to place your baby with alternative carers.” This so shocked the family that they raised what money they could and, like many others faced with similar threats, escaped abroad, where they now live in circumstances hardly conducive to a happy delivery of their new child.
Staffordshire social workers were also involved in the tragic case of Maureen Smith, the mother so desperate at the prospect of losing her two children that she fled to Spain, where she killed them before attempting suicide. As she wrote in her suicide note: “Social Services In Staffordshire and their policy of forced adoption are responsible for this.”
 
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These are just two instances of the vast, long-running tragedy which Bob Geldof, launching a report last December on the “barbaric” chaos of our family law system, called “state-sanctioned kidnap”, whereby social workers, abetted by family courts and an army of complicit lawyers and “experts”, routinely snatch children from loving parents to feed the maw of the adoption and fostering industry.
Yet contrast this with last week’s report exonerating Kirklees social workers from any failings in the case of Shannon Matthews, the Yorkshire girl made subject, after years of neglect and ill-treatment, to a fake kidnap by her mother (described by local police as “pure evil”). Even though no fewer than 22 agencies had been involved with this dysfunctional family over many years, the report found that Shannon’s treatment did not justify taking her into care.
If ever there was a scandal which called for the full glare of publicity it is the highly secretive system which allows thousands of children to be sent for forced adoption, often on no proper pretext. Meanwhile the list of cases where social workers ignore all evidence in allowing the abuse of children to continue, grows ever longer.
It is not generally appreciated how adoption and fostering, organised by social workers, have become big business – quite apart from the fees charged by those lawyers and experts who are part of this corrupt system. Adoption payments and access to a wide range of benefits can provide carers with hundreds, even thousands of pounds a week. Still to be found on the internet (see the Forced Adoption website) is an advertisement by Slough Family Placement Services headed “Balloons and family fun to promote fostering”. This promised that Slough’s town square would be “bustling with activities including face painting and balloon modelling”, complete with a “David Beckham lookalike” (“bring a camera”), to launch “a new fostering allowance of £400 a week”.
I have recently reported the harassment and repeated arrests of Mauren Spalek, the devoted Cheshire mother whose two younger children were taken from her in 2006, and who faces trial on June 29 on a criminal charge of sending her son a birthday card. Last week it emerged, from an official register, what the occupation is of the woman who adopted her stolen children. She is a social worker.

Bill allowing adoption by single women in next session

Bill allowing adoption by single women in next session
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The Bill seeking to amend the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 and the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act 1956 to pave the way for adoption by widows and single women will be passed in the coming session of Parliament, said Jayanthi Natarajan, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice. The Personal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, was introduced in Rajya Sabha on April, 22, 2010 and referred to the standing committee for eliciting public opinion on the issue.
Talking to reporters after holding discussions with officials of the State government and various Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), Ms. Natarajan said there was unanimous opinion in favour of the Bill. The committee had already visited Mumbai and Bangalore.
Ms. Natarajan said the issue of adopting a “flexible policy,” with regard to promotion, leave and vacation for women in government jobs, was also discussed.
“Many women refuse to accept promotional transfers citing family responsibility. The committee has suggested that the PSUs and other government agencies could formulate a flexible promotion and transfer policy for women employees.”
While discussing the issue of sexual harassment of women in the workplace, the committee evaluated whether the guidelines set up by the Supreme Court in Vishaka case were being followed. She said the Centre was considering enacting a law in this regard and the private sector could be covered at a later stage.
The meeting on Saturday also discussed in detail the infrastructure facilities, appointments in subordinate courts and the possibility of courts functioning in shifts, re-employment of retired judges and setting up fast-track courts for speedy disposal of cases with regard to rape, sexual harassment and cases involving senior citizens.
Ms. Natarajan said the situation in Tamil Nadu was better in terms of infrastructure. Vacancies were filled immediately and judges were given training periodically.
She said no representation was made to the committee in connection with making Tamil a court language.
Keywords: child adoption, Hindu Maintenance Act, Hindu Guardian and Wards Act

Børn til salg: De første afsløringer


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Children for sale: The first revelations
20th Jun. 2010 17:00 Sport
In a special edition of news magazine 21 Sunday back in June 2007, revealed
the DR, how the Danish adoption agency AC International Child fetched the
children from corrupt orphanage in India who are accused of, inter alia,
kidnapping and child abuse.
The demand for adopted children in Denmark was even then growing partly
because of the fact that fertility was declining in the western world.
It gave birth to a cynical child trafficking where unscrupulous dealers
children began to kidnap children from their parents and sell them to
international adoption agencies.
A growing cynical money machine
In the program we met for the first time the Indian father Ramesh Kulkarni,
whose children disappeared without trace from the scandal hit the orphanage
Preet Mandir, where they stayed temporarily after their mother died. It
turned to his father's great dismay, that his children had been adopted to
Denmark against his will - through AC International Child.
To demonstrate how the illicit trafficking of adopted children was set up
the journalists behind the program a fictitious adoption agency. With hidden
cameras revealed the way children were sold for up to 7,000 U.S. Dollars
snippet on one of the orphanages where exactly AC International Child
downloaded from children in India.
After revelations
After DR's revelations of the corrupt Indian market adoptions, closed family
minister Karina Christensen temporarily for all adoptions from India.
4 months after Denmark opened again for adoptions from India. A report from
family Board - India survey acquitted both orphanage in India and the Indian
authorities in the case. At the same time gave Ernst & Young with a report
which stated that AC Orphanage had complied with the law about not paying
for the dissemination of children to Denmark from India.
The case is reopened
Now, the Indian federal police - CBI - made a new investigation of the
orphanage Preet Mandir, and the case of the father, who was tricked her
children.
Federal police report backs up the father's history - and thus there will be
again opened for debate on adoptions from India.
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• Indian adoptions: Dad tricked her children


Facts about Ramesh Kulkarnis history
• In March 2002 die Ramesh Kulkarnis wife of gulsol few months after their
last child was born.
• After a few weeks break Ramesh Kulkarni together. He can not give children
food when he is at work. Therefore, he leaves his job and moves with his
family. He realizes that he can not take care of the children, and
approximately one month after his wife's death handing Ramesh Kulkarni her
children to the orphanage Preet Mandir. He told that he could at any time
get his children back when he has come economically and mentally overpå.
• Orphanage asks him to sign a paper. The paper, which he believes is the
enrollment documents, but which in reality was bortadoption papers.
• A month after coming family to retrieve the children, but they are gone.
• orphanage Preet Mandir trying to blackmail the family and require money to
give children back. Unfortunately the family has no money.
• In spring 2003 Ramesh Kulkarni still believe that his children at the
orphanage Preet Mandir, but the children were adopted away to Denmark.
• Ramesh Kulkarni refuses permission to bortadoption and are forbidden to
come to the orphanage.
• The father feed the search with the lawyer, but must give up because of
money problems.
• First in October 2006 makes Ramesh Kulkarni yet another attempt to see the
children with his brother. They take to the orphanage, but the orphanage
show them something completely different child, not his. Protests from the
father and brother do that they will be kicked out of the orphanage.
• In April 2007 decides the whole family to ride together to the orphanage.
Here they are told that the children are in Denmark.
• The family reports the matter to local police in the city of Pune, the
police in Mumbai and child rights organization Child Line. They want their
children back.
• The case will be shown in 21 Sunday in June 2007 and get the result that
Denmark pauses for adoptions from India. But after a study from India finds
that Ramesh Kulkarni knew what papers he had signed, Denmark closes again up
for adoptions from India and orphanage Preet Mandir and AC International
Child is acquitted of the charges.
• In 2010 the Indian police discovered that the policeman who stood behind
the survey in 2007, is corrupt and in league with the orphanage Preet
Mandir. He gets fired.
• New investigation launched. It affirms that Ramesh Kulkarni got tricked
her children. At the same time the CBI, the Indian Federal Police,
discovered that there are corrupt officials employed by CARA, the Indian
adoption authority, which is also in cahoots with the orphanage Preet
Mandir.
• Now, Ramesh Kulkarni have her children back to India.

 

 

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Ramesh Kulkarni er den indiske far, som deltog i 21 Søndags første afsløringer omkring adoptioner fra Indien. Han anklagede et børnehjem for at have franarret ham sine børn, men i 2007 blev der sat tvivl ved hans troværdighed. Ny undersøgelse fra i år fastslår nu, at han ikke have løjet. Børnehjemmet franarrede ham sine børn, som blev bortadopteret til Danmark. Han har ikke set dem i otte år.

Foto: DR © DR

 

Skrevet af: Tine Maria Borresø

 

Børn til salg: De første afsløringer

20. jun. 2010 17.00 Udland

I en særudgave af nyhedsmagasinet 21 Søndag tilbage i juni 2007, afslørede DR, hvordan det danske adoptionsbureau AC Børnehjælp hentede børn fra korrupte børnehjem i Indien, der er anklaget for bl.a. kidnapning og børnemishandling.  

Efterspørgslen efter adoptivbørn til Danmark var allerede dengang stigende blandt andet på grund af, at fertiliteten var faldende i den vestlige del af verden.

Det gav fødsel til en kynisk handel med børn, hvor skruppelløse børnehandlere begyndte at kidnappe børn fra deres forældre, og sælge dem til internationale adoptionsbureauer.  

En voksende kynisk pengemaskine
I programmet mødte vi for første gang den indiske familiefar Ramesh Kulkarni, hvis børn forsvandt sporløst fra det skandaleramte børnehjem Preet Mandir, hvor de opholdt sig midlertidigt efter deres mor døde. Det viste sig til faderens store fortvivlelse, at hans børn var blevet adopteret til Danmark mod hans vilje – via AC Børnehjælp.

For at dokumentere, hvordan den ulovlige handel med adoptivbørn foregik, oprettede journalisterne bag programmet et fiktivt adoptionsbureau. Med skjult kamera afslørede de, hvordan børn blev solgt for op til 7000 US Dollars stykket på ét af de børnehjem, hvor netop AC Børnehjælp hentede børn fra i Indien.

Efter afsløringerne
Efter DR’s afsløringer af det korrupte indiske adoptionsmarked, lukkede familieminister Karina Christensen midlertidigt for alle adoptioner fra Indien.

4 måneder efter åbnede Danmark igen for adoptioner fra Indien. En rapport fra familiestyrelsen - Indien-undersøgelsen frikendte både børnehjemmet i Indien og de indiske myndigheder i sagen. Samtidig fremkom Ernst & Young med en rapport, som slog fast, at AC Børnehjem havde overholdt lovgivningen omkring ikke at betale for formidling af børn til Danmark fra Indien.

Sagen er genåbnet
Nu har det indiske forbundspoliti - CBI - foretaget en ny efterforskning af børnehjemmet Preet Mandir, og sagen om faderen, der blev franarret sine børn.

Forbundspolitiets rapport bakker op om farens historie - og dermed bliver der igen åbnet for debatten omkring adoptioner fra Indien.

 

 

Fakta om Ramesh Kulkarnis historie

  • I mart 2002 dør Ramesh Kulkarnis kone af gulsot få måneder efter, at deres sidste barn er født.
  • Efter nogle uger bryder Ramesh Kulkarni sammen. Han kan ikke give børnene mad, når han er på arbejde. Derfor forlader han sit job og flytter sammen med sin familie. Han indser, at han ikke kan tage sig af børnene, og cirka en måned efter sin kones død afleverer Ramesh Kulkarni sine børn til børnehjemmet Preet Mandir. Han får at vide, at han når som helst kan hente sine børn igen, når han er kommet økonomisk og mentalt overpå.
  • Børnehjemmet beder ham underskrive et papir. Papir, som han tror er indskrivningsdokumenter, men som i virkeligheden var bortadoptionspapirer.
  • En måned efter kommer familien for at hente børnene, men de er væk.
  • Børnehjemmet Preet Mandir forsøger at afpresse familien og kræver penge for at give børnene tilbage. Desværre har familien ikke pengene.
  • I foråret 2003 tror Ramesh Kulkarni stadig, at hans børn er på børnehjemmet Preet Mandir, men børnene er blevet bortadopteret til Danmark.
  • Ramesh Kulkarni nægter at give tilladelse til bortadoption og bliver forbudt at komme på børnehjemmet.
  • Faderen sætter gang i søgningen med advokat, men må give op på grund af pengeproblemer.
  • Først i oktober 2006 gør Ramesh Kulkarni endnu et forsøg på at se børnene sammen med sin bror. De tager til børnehjemmet, men børnehjemmet viser dem nogle helt andre børn, der ikke er hans. Protester fra faderen og broderen gør, at de bliver smidt ud af børnehjemmet. 
  • I April 2007 beslutter hele familien at køre sammen til børnehjemmet. Her får de at vide, at børnene er i Danmark.
  • Familien melder sagen til det lokale politi i byen Pune, til kriminalpolitiet i Mumbai og børnerettighedsorganisationen Child Line. De vil have børnene tilbage.
  • Sagen bliver vist i 21 Søndag i juni 2007, og den får den konsekvens, at Danmark stopper midlertidigt for adoptioner fra Indien. Men efter at en undersøgelse fra Indien fastslår, at Ramesh Kulkarni godt vidste, hvilke papirer han havde underskrevet, lukker Danmark igen op for adoptioner fra Indien, og børnehjemmet Preet Mandir og AC Børnehjælp bliver frikendt for anklagerne.
  • I 2010 finder indisk politi ud af, at den politimand, som stod bag undersøgelsen i 2007, er korrupt og i ledtog med børnehjemmet Preet mandir. Han bliver fyret.
  • Ny undersøgelse iværksættes. Den slår fast, at Ramesh Kulkarni fik franarret sine børn. Samtidig finder CBI, Det Indiske Forbundspoliti, ud af, at der er korrupte embedsmænd ansat i CARA, den indiske adoptionsmyndighed, som også i ledtog med børnehjemmet i Preet Mandir.
  • Nu vil Ramesh Kulkarni have sine børn tilbage til Indien.

Indisk politi: Far franarret sine børn

GOOGLE TRANSLATION

 

Indian police: Dad tricked her children 
20th Jun. 2010 17:00 Sport 
Three years ago, Danish authorities had unprecedented stop the adoption of children from India, after 21 Sunday documented a market for buying and selling of children. 
But it lasted only half a year before authorities again opened to adoptions from India, because one study claimed that there was no team in the accusations. 
Now, the Indian federal police investigated the case which looked at 21 Sunday in June 2007. The case involves an Indian orphanage from which children come to Denmark. 
Prosecutors are for corruption, kidnapping and child trafficking. 

The story began in a small Indian village 
The story was then based on an Indian man, Ramesh Kulkarni, who had been tricked her children from the orphanage Preet Mandir controversial in the city Pune in India. 
His wife had died shortly before, and after much deliberation chose Ramesh Kulkarni to deliver her children in an orphanage - until he again can handle the children alone. 
But what he did not know was that he would never get to see her children again. 
The children were disseminated to the Danish adoption agency AC International Child, who helped the children on to a family in Denmark. 
  
Orphanage was acquitted - her father was left alone 
Approximately a half years after the matter came up, chose the Danish authorities to re-open for adoptions from India. 
One study claimed namely that the father was fully aware that the children would be given up for adoption.
But the Indian federal police - CBI - investigated the matter further. And federal police report backs up the father's history - and thus in turn opened up big questions about how Indian children come to Denmark. 
The report provides the Indian federal police on the head of the controversial children's home: 
- The head was fraudulently father to sign the transfer papers for all the children and beat them up for adoption without the father's consent to the insidious plans. 
Eight years ago, when Ramesh Kulkarni transferred its children for children home representative, he was asked to sign a piece of paper. He was told that the paper was clean appearance - a simple enrollment of children at the orphanage and school, but the papers were put up for adoption ring documents as the father of pure ignorance signed. 
Now requires the Indian father to his children's home - after he has lived without her children for eight years. 
- I miss my kids, says Ramesh Kalkarni still waiting back in the village in India. 
A serious accusation 
CBI - Indian federal police - investigating, among other major cases involving organized crime and corruption. 
The CBI's report notes that the preliminary investigation, the head of the orphanage Preet Mandir fran scarred Ramesh Kulkarni his children away and adopted them out of the country. 

 

 

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Ramesh Kulkarni er den indiske far, som for otte år siden fik franarret sine børn af det indiske børnehjem Preet Mandir i den indiske by Pune. Han arbejder i dag som tjener, og håber på, at de nye afsløringer fra det indiske forbundspoliti vil betyde, at han kan få sine børn at se, som han ikke har set i otte år.

Foto: DR © DR

 

Skrevet af: Tine Maria Borresø

 

Indisk politi: Far franarret sine børn

20. jun. 2010 17.00 Udland

For tre år siden måtte danske myndigheder helt uhørt stoppe for adoption af børn fra Indien, efter 21 Søndag dokumenterede et marked for køb og salg af børn.

Men det varede kun et halvt år, før myndighederne igen åbnede for adoption fra Indien, fordi en undersøgelse påstod, at der ikke var hold i anklagerne.

Nu har det indiske forbundspoliti undersøgt den sag, som 21 Søndag kiggede på i juni 2007. Sagen involverer et indisk børnehjem, hvorfra der er kommet børn til Danmark.

Anklagerne lyder på korruption, kidnapning og handel med børn.

Historien startede i en lille indisk landsby
Historien tog dengang udgangspunkt i en indisk mand, Ramesh Kulkarni, som var blevet franarret sine børn af det omdiskuterede børnehjem Preet Mandir i storbyen Pune i Indien.

Hans kone var død kort forinden, og efter mange overvejelser valgte Ramesh Kulkarni at aflevere sine børn på et børnehjem - indtil han igen kan klare børnene alene.

Men, hvad han ikke vidste, var, at han aldrig ville komme til at se sine børn igen.

Børnene blev formidlet til det danske adoptionsfirma AC Børnehjælp, der hjalp børnene videre til en familie i Danmark. 
 
Børnehjem blev frikendt - faderen stod alene tilbage
Cirka et halvt år efter sagen kom frem, valgte de danske myndigheder igen at lukke op for adoption fra Indien.

En undersøgelse påstod nemlig, at faderen var fuldt bevidst om, at børnene ville blive bortadopteret.

Men nu har det indiske forbundspoliti - CBI - undersøgt sagen nærmere. Og forbundspolitiets rapport bakker op om faderens historie - og dermed bliver der igen åbnet op for store spørgsmål om, hvordan indiske børn kommer til Danmark.

I rapporten skriver det indiske forbundspoliti om lederen af det omstridte børnehjem:

- Lederen fik på bedragerisk vis faderen til at skrive under på overdragelsespapirerne på alle børnene og fik dem bortadopteret uden faderens samtykke til de lumske planer. 

For otte år siden, da Ramesh Kulkarni overdrog sine børn til børnehjemmets repræsentant, blev han bedt om at underskrive et stykke papir. Han fik at vide, at papiret var ren formalia - en simpel indskrivning af børnene på børnehjemmet og skolen, men papirerne var bortadopteringsdokumenter, som faderen i ren uvidenhed underskrev.

Nu kræver den indiske far at få sine børn hjem  - efter at han har levet uden sine børn i otte år.

- Jeg savner mine børn, lyder det fra Ramesh Kalkarni, som stadig venter tilbage i landsbyen i Indien. 

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CBI - det indiske forbundspoliti - undersøger blandt andet store sager om organiseret kriminalitet og korruption. 

I CBI's rapport konstaterer den foreløbige efterforskning, at lederen af børnehjemmet Preet Mandir franarrede Ramesh Kulkarni hans børn og bortadopterede dem ud af landet.

In Haiti, aftershocks of a mother's wrenching decision

In Haiti, aftershocks of a mother's wrenching decision

In the chaos after the quake, Marie Lud Francois sent her two older children to an orphanage. But months later, her house remains in ruins, money is scarce, and hopes of bringing them home remain dim.

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She woke before dawn to get the charcoal going. The tents and rusted shacks on Ruelle Porcelaine were quiet. A faint mist drifted down on the tarps as she boiled a bit of fish and sweet potato in a tin pot.

She wrapped the food neatly in paper and packed a tote bag with hand towels, candies, tangerines, hair ties, pomade, a pair of pink sandals, secondhand T-shirts and little pants. She wished she could bring more. Bernardo's flip-flops were wearing out, and Barbara needed a hair brush.

Marie Lud Francois had been thinking about this day for nearly two months, ever since she handed her two oldest children over to an orphanage.


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Marie Lud ached to see them, but was wary. No emotion ran clean anymore. Nothing was right after the earthquake.

Her husband, Bernard Charles, gave her the money for the trip, about $3.50. He had been saving for several weeks. Bernard, who sews and fixes mattresses, had to stay behind and look for work. Marie Lud wished he could come with her. She wished that, for at least a moment, they could all be together.

Bernard was wiry and animated in a way that complemented Marie Lud's quiet warmth. He found the humor in nearly everything, and his old foot-pedal sewing table had become a gathering spot on the block.

Their son, Bernardo, who is 13 and shy like his mom, would shadow his dad, emulating him, helping him sew, repeating his jokes. Barbara was 9 and more outgoing, forever delighted and gleaming, following her older brother the way he followed his dad. Marie Lud wondered how her little ones were coping at the orphanage. She knew Bernardo would do anything to protect Barbara. But both were sensitive children, not particularly tough. She hoped they weren't getting picked on.

She listened to the noise of the city as it began to rise. The men down the street began their dominoes, thwacking the pieces down as they always did. The street below Ruelle Porcelaine sputtered with motorcycles and creaky jitneys and dump trucks filled with shattered concrete.

Marie Lud's family lived in two rooms in an old row of wooden shops. Since the earthquake Jan. 12, they had barely stepped inside them. The adjacent four-story building was cracked and threatened to come down on top of them. They slept in a vacant lot next door.

Her friend Blanc and their neighbor Edner joined her. They were going to visit their children at the same orphanage, about two hours away.

Marie Lud put a white sunbonnet on her 5-year-old daughter, Bernardin, and Blanc picked up her 13-month-old boy. Edner's teenage daughter appeared, and they all walked toward the bus stop on Rue Central. Edner, silver-haired and lanky, led in a pressed red guayabera, khaki pants and polished wingtips.

The neighborhood, Bel Air, was once a prosperous haven of little wooden homes with ornate fretwork and peaked tin roofs. The affluent had long ago moved away, but many of their ancient houses still stood, splintered and rickety, tilting this way or that.

The three parents and their children filed into a bus, with "My Insurance is God" painted on the windshield. When enough people had wedged in, the driver pulled away and Marie Lud gazed out the window.

They passed Place de la Paix, where in a past life the family had listened to the rara bands on weekends, or watched Bernardo play soccer. Thousands lived there now, in makeshift tents and lean-tos. Already, scraps of tin and wood were solidifying into something permanent.

For a brief spell after the disaster, Marie Lud had held a shred of hope for the future. Everyone was talking about rebuilding, creating jobs. But now the initial rush of grief and adrenaline was giving way to a silent horror that this was the future.

What if she could never get her children back? What if they were adopted by Americans? What if they forgot about her? What if they blamed her?

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The sound came like the roar of a jet from the deepest earth, followed by tremendous jack-hammering — dou-gou-dou-gou-dou-gou. Within seconds, an otherworldly scream rose in every direction.

Marie Lud's recollection of what followed that night of the earthquake comes in fragments: Running through the smoke and dust for half a mile to the National Palace. Seeing it collapsed like a smashed wedding cake. Standing all night with her children and tens of thousands of others in the open plaza of Champs de Mars. People clutching whatever random items they escaped their homes with. Chanting hymns. Swatting mosquitoes. Thinking that Bernard, who had been downtown on business, was dead. That ghostly scream with every aftershock.

The next morning, Marie Lud was desperate. It was as if all her points of reference had been wiped clean: no work, no school, no market, no home, no government. She didn't have food for her children, and was frantic about losing one of them in the crowd.

Just down the street all the inmates of the main prison had escaped. She had long had a fear that some thug would one day try to rape one of her daughters and Bernardo would be killed trying to protect her.

She kept the three children within arm's reach. A woman noticed them all, and introduced herself as a social worker. She told her that she knew of a local orphanage that sometimes fed, schooled and sheltered children whose parents couldn't do it themselves. Some of her neighbors from Ruelle Porcelaine vouched for the place, called Centre d'Action Pour le Developpement. Edner had left some of his children there before when he couldn't feed them.

Marie Lud didn't know what to do. She wanted her children to be right with her. But she had no idea where this nightmare was heading. Corpses were littering the sidewalks, already gathering flies. The earth kept having its fits. She didn't even know what this shaking was. People were calling it the goudoup-goudoup for the sound it made.

Marie Lud nodded and the social worker made a call. Soon a car came and Marie Lud told Bernardo and Barbara they would have to go with the driver.

They both started crying. "Where are they taking us?" Bernardo screamed. "I don't want to go!"

Marie Lud couldn't hold back her tears. Her eyes always betrayed her emotions.

"Cherie, things are going to be OK," she told them. "It's only for a short time and I'm going to pick you up."

They got in, sniffling and wiping their eyes, and the car pulled away. They stared at her as they drove off.

Marie Lud didn't sleep or eat that night. She just kept thinking of the betrayed look on those two faces that were as much a part of her as her bones.

Bernard appeared the next day, his face swollen and caked with dried blood and dust. He had been knocked unconscious by the falling blocks of a hotel, and then had wandered through the chaos in a daze.

When Bernard didn't see Bernardo or Barbara, he immediately panicked, thinking they were dead. She told him what she had done. He didn't understand.

"Why did you do that? he asked repeatedly.

He was furious. He wanted his children.

Later that afternoon, some thugs started screaming that a tsunami was coming, setting off a stampede. Some children were separated from their parents in the chaos, and the thugs stole whatever valuables were left behind: pots, toys, radios, portable televisions, picture frames, shoes, Sunday clothes.

Bernard then understood her decision.

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The drizzle let up. Past the airport at Delmas 33, they got out of the bus and found a taptap — the workhorse of Haitian transportation, a floridly painted, covered pickup with benches in the back. They caught one and then another.

Marie Lud watched the city give way to an arid valley where peasants tended little plots behind tall cactus and hedges of candelabra plants. On a barren hill near the border with the Dominican Republic, Edner shouted for the driver to stop. The group crouched to get out, holding each other's bags as they stepped down. Blanc's little boy slept in her arms.

They knocked on the red iron gate of the orphanage, and an armed guard let them into the gravel yard. They stood frozen in front of a squat concrete building, wondering where to go. Marie Lud glanced nervously about. Two children spun around a squeaky merry-go-round.

The group shuffled tentatively around the back of the building where the rest of the children were playing in a courtyard.

"Bonjou!" Blanc sang.

The younger children erupted in excitement, swarming around them. A little boy scooped up Bernardin and hugged her. Blanc cried and clutched her four children. Edner heartily patted and hugged his.

Bernardo came to Marie Lud tentatively. He was barefoot. She squinted hard to hold back the tears.

"Bonjou, cherie," she said quietly. She wrapped her arms around him as Barbara came running with a blissful smile.

"How are you? How are you?" Marie Lud asked.

She held their hands as she studied them, and they her, standing in the slim shade next to a UNICEF tent. Bernardo leaned against the canvas and stared off with a hard look, tears welling up.

"Why don't you smile, baby?" Marie Lud said. "Why are you crying?"

He struggled to hold everything back.

"Nothing, I'm just happy," he said, barely audible.

"I love you," she said. "You know I love you."

She squinted again and inhaled hard through her nose. Bernardo always made her cry.

Barbara started telling her about life in the orphanage. "Remember that last thing you sent me? They stole it."

She caressed Barbara's temples, ran her fingers through their hair. She gently kneaded Bernardo's earlobes and felt the contours of his face. Barbara cupped her mother's soft cheek as if to make sure she was really there.

Marie Lud knelt down and opened her bag. Her kids huddled over her as she sorted the clothes and food and sundry items she had brought. Barbara bear-hugged her little sister. "I love you. I love you." Bernardin showed her a tiny thorn in her hand, and Barbara inspected it with concern.

"I brought face towels for you," Marie Lud told her.

"Where am I going to put them? They're going to steal them."

"I want you to manage things together," she said, giving her and her brother a solemn look.

She unwrapped the sweet potato and fish, and they picked at it. They didn't say much.

"Do you remember me?" Marie Lud asked wistfully at one point.

Bernardo nodded and wiped his eyes with a rag.

"Sweetheart, it's not all that bad here," Marie Lud said.

"Somebody told us we are going to be here forever," Bernardo said.

"Who told you that?" she shot back. "That's not true, baby. The house isn't ready yet, but it will be soon."

No flimsy words could change the truth of Bernardo's face. She had hoped, against her deepest instinct, that he would be lighthearted, happy to see her. And she had hoped that seeing him clean and fed would tamp down the guilt about the decision she had made.

They huddled together for about an hour, and then she told them that she had to go. The three adults gathered their bags.

"When I come back again," she told Bernardo. "I'm not sure when ... but I'll make sure and buy you some sandals."

She slowly detached herself and wiped his eyes. When she turned away, she furtively wiped her own.

"Goodbye babies, I love you."

They left the children in the courtyard and headed back for the gate. The guard ignored them, annoyed that he had to leave his spot of shade to unlock it.

Bernardo came running from behind the building with a weak smile, tears still glistening, trying to show he was fine.

"Don't worry, Bernardo. Everything is going to be all right. Now go ahead."

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When Marie Lud got home, she told her husband how sad Bernardo was, how he was walking around the gravel barefoot.

"What happened to the sandals I gave him?" he asked.

"They're broken."

Bernard grasped the back of his head and sighed. "He has to have shoes."

The next few weeks didn't raise their hopes. They were eating less, rice mostly. Bernard found a few small jobs, but was making just a fraction of what he had earned before the earthquake. Crime was on the rise. Down the street, gangs and police got in a wild shootout, and one day Blanc was robbed at gunpoint while selling secondhand clothes.

The children were allowed to call home twice a month. In one call they complained that lougarous — people who turned into beasts at night and killed children — were lurking outside their tents when they slept. They kept hearing barking in the yard, yet there were no dogs at the orphanage.

Every day, this arrangement felt more unnatural to Marie Lud. A mother was supposed to be with her children.

They would just have to make do, as a family. They couldn't wait for a happy ending that was never going to come.

They decided they would do everything they could to get them home when schools reopened in early April. Bernard had paid for the semester just before the quake. The real difficulty would come in the fall. He saw little chance that he could keep them enrolled. Then what would they do?

For the poor in Haiti there are few choices. There are no welfare or unemployment benefits.

Bernard had two options: hustle for work or die trying.

He kept going down to the shops on Rue Champs de Mars, trying to collect money he was owed.

Business was slowly coming back to life. The street mechanics were at work. Furniture makers were displaying some chairs on the rubble pile that was once the Hotel Air Fresh. Bernard picked up a couple of sewing jobs from a man who restored used mattresses sent from Miami.

At home, he pedaled his ancient machine, shirtless in the heat and humidity, stitching foam to muslin and polyester in overlapping waves. T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t.

Various friends and neighbors hung around, listening to Bernard talk as he sewed. One day they were all laughing as he told them he had suddenly become a street preacher after the earthquake, shouting at random people to repent, before dropping his newfound faith three days later. Marie Lud looked up from her laundry and smiled.

They had planned to pick Bernardo and Barbara up in early April. But Bernardin got a strange rash and diarrhea that required a visit to the doctor and a prescription for some ointment. The foreign doctors didn't charge them anything, but the pharmacy did.

They had to spend all their cash, leaving nothing for the trip to the orphanage.

But Bernard kept hustling and sewing. Six days later they had it.

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"I cried this morning," Barbara told her mother.

"Why were you crying?" she asked. "We're going home."

"I cried ahead of time, just in case we were not going."

Marie Lud laughed. Barbara did a little sashay.

They gathered their belongings and said goodbye to their friends. Some of the other children sobbed because they weren't leaving.

Marie Lud signed some paperwork and they filed out the gate.

The landscape was vast out here. The next town was two miles away.

Bernardo smiled and put his arm around his mom. Barbara bounded ahead, and they set off down the highway.

joe.mozingo@latimes.com

Mother whose children were taken for adoption joins class action

Mother whose children were taken for adoption joins class action
More than 100 British families who say they have been treated unfairly by social services departments and the family courts are preparing to launch an unprecedented case at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, arguing that their human rights have been breached.

By Rebecca Lefort
Published: 8:33PM BST 19 Jun 2010

'Alison' at her home in the north of England. Her three daughters have been taken away in family court rulings. Pregnant with her fourth baby, she fears it will be removed as soon as it is born Photo: Chris Neill
When 'Alison' developed post natal depression she pleaded for help from those she thought were there to assist her.
But instead of gaining support she ended up losing custody of her three beloved daughters.

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Social workers said the children were at risk of suffering "emotional abuse", even though they conceded that she cared deeply for them and had worked hard to be a better parent.
Now the 22-year-old, whose real name cannot be used for legal reasons, is pregnant for a fourth time and is terrified that social workers will refuse to give her the chance of caring for the new baby once it is born.
This week the mother, from the north of England, became one of hundreds of parents who have joined an unprecedented class action, suing the family courts and local authority social services departments.
The claimants hope the action will lead to greater transparency and accountability in the family court system, as well as the possibility of being reunited with the children they believe have been taken unfairly.
More than 100 families have now signed up to the claim, which will be lodged on July 1 at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, where political leaders are tried for genocide.
Alison, who is 15 weeks pregnant, said: "I'm pleased someone's taken action, because they've taken my children.
"It's about showing that they're using claims like 'emotional abuse' when they've got nothing left to put against you.
"You have to prove it 150 per cent that you're a perfect parent, and there's no such thing as 150 per cent. I don't know what would be good enough for them."
There were no problems with Alison's first baby, but after the birth of her second child she suffered from post natal depression and was not able to care for the baby properly.
She said she asked social services for help and support, but instead officials decided she was unfit to be a mother. Both Alison's baby and her 18-month-old toddler were taken into care.
The judge at the family court hearing which decided the fate of Alison's first two daughters, in September 2008, recorded in her judgement that the mother had turned up for appointments, assessments and all her court hearings, adding: "She loves her children and has shown a commitment to them in contact."
The judge also praised Alison for enrolling on a health and social care course, and staying on top of her finances. Nevertheless, her judgement concluded that the girls should be taken away from their mother because if they were left with her they would be "at risk of emotional harm and physical harm, as a result of her neglectful and poor parenting".
The two girls were first put into foster care, then put up for adoption. After the decision Alison received counselling and took a series of courses which, she now says, made her a better parent. When she had a third daughter, and fought to keep the baby, she had the testimony of a psychologist who said she had improved greatly. But again social services said there was a "risk" that harm could come to the child, and again a family court ruled against her.
Now Alison is only allowed to receive a letter and picture of her three girls once a year.
The first three girls shared the same father, with whom Alison had a volatile relationship. She has now split up with the man and is in a more settled relationship with a new partner, the 26-year-old father of unborn baby.
"I'm petrified about being pregnant just because I think they'll take the baby away," she said.
"I'm scared of them coming for it, I don't know what to do and I'm constantly thinking of ways I can help myself. Sometimes I think about running away.
"No one's perfect, but I've been trying so hard and I've done so much, but they don't even seem to care.
"There are some awful mothers out there who hurt their babies, and I've never done anything like that."
The court action Alison is now part of is being brought by Freedom, Advocacy and Law, which claims that parents have suffered "constant denial of freedoms" which ought to be protected under the Human Rights Act.
The action alleges that British courts and local authorities have breached the legislation, which gives the right to a fair trial and the right to respect for private and family life.
Sam Hallimond, of Freedom, Advocacy and Law, said: "Families have been destroyed by the actions of family courts, and no one has been held to account.
"Considering what's at stake at these hearings we need to see some sort of definition of the criteria under which action should be taken by social services.
"The possibility of future emotional neglect and abuse is not good enough, unless courts have a crystal ball I don't know how they can justify that."
He said he hoped the class action could result in financial payouts to some claimants, but the main purpose was to expose the flaws families saw in the system.