Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Baby Trafficking

What a horrible day (sob).

The next step in Lili's adoption is to do a "re-adoption". Basically all it is is a formality to get a US issued "Certificate of Foreign Birth" so anytime Lili needs to show a birth certificate in the future, she can just show the Certificate of Foreign Birth, since she doesn't and won't ever have a birth certificate from China (the biological parents don't abandoned the children leaving their birth certificate with the baby).

So, I had tried to find an international adoption attorney in this area (the Middle of NoWhere, Oklahoma), but no one seemed to know how to do it. So, going off other adoptive families experiences I decided to do the re-adoption "pro se" or representing myself. At least by doing it myself I would save approx $2000.

NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 15, 2010

Child: U.S. Adoption Agency Bought Me

CBS News Investigates Serious Questions about the Legitimacy of Some Ethopian Adoptions

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Vegetable vendor's plea moves apex court

New Delhi |Monday, 2010 11:05:12 AM IST

The Supreme Court has sought the Maharashtra government's response to a lawsuit filed by a vegetable vendor accusing a Pune-based private trust of selling her two granddaughters to a Spanish couple under the garb of adoption.

A bench of Justice Aftab Alam sought the reply also from the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) on a lawsuit by Kisabai Tulsiram Lokhande, the grandmother of the girls.

In her lawsuit Lokhande, a vegetable vendor, has accused the private trust, Preet Mandir, of selling her two granddaughters to a Spanish couple for Rs.5 lakh and Rs.25 lakh respectively. She said she had handed over the girls to an observation home in Karad in September 2004 as she was unable to look after them.

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I've been curious about Jorge Puello since his name appeared about 10 days ago as the legal adviser for the New Lifers. Puello made a big splat on CNN when he complained about the severe conditions under which his clients were jailed: "No air conditioning! No Electricity! Very disturbing!"

According to news reports Puello was hired by Laura Silby's church, Central Valley Baptist, after either the church or Laura Silsby and her gang rejected the attorney (or attorneys) recommended by American Consular Services. Puello, in turn, hired Haitian attorney Edwin Coq to represent the detainees, even though Coq speaks Creole and no English. What to make of that nonsense?

Last week, according to whose story you believe, Puello fired Coq, claiming that the Haitian had demanded a $60,000 fee and attempted to bribe the prisoners back to the US. Coq denied the accusation, and said he quit because the families back in Idaho never sent him the $60,000 he needed to take the case. Sources inside of Haiti who know Coq claim that he is an "honest young lawyer" and refused to believe Puello's claim. Coq has complained to the press that Puello has ruined his reputation.

Earthquake Opens Doors, Fears of Child Trafficking

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BY SHANTELLA Y. SHERMAN - WI STAFF WRITER

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The consensus among African Americans has long been that children of color belong with families of color. Even when the children are of different nationalities, the belief is that cultural differences spoil the stew simmering inside the “melting pot.” Ironically, African American adoptive parents, particularly of immigrant Black children is rare. The recent arrest and detainment of 10 relief workers smuggling Haitian children from the country in the wake of a catastrophic earthquake has brought the plight of Diasporic adoptions and child trafficking to the forefront of the world media. Still, the dilemma remains: How best can the international adoption community answer the call for placements amid accusations of kidnapping and abuse?