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Rescue centre offers Kenyan orphans a good future

Rescue centre offers Kenyan orphans a good future
2:20pm Thursday 4th June 2009
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A RESCUE centre and health clinic for orphaned girls in Kenya has officially opened after years of fundraising by people in Oxfordshire.
Kenya Children Centres chief fundraiser Gay Goodall, 61, from Warborough, near Wallingford, flew out to Ngoingwa, 40 miles north of Nairobi, to mark the event last month.
'At last, all our efforts are beginning to pay off'
Gay Goodall
The Ngoingwa Centre for Good Future provides round-the-clock care for 120 girls and includes a health clinic and community centre for local people.
The accommodation is a lifeline for the orphans, who could otherwise end up abused, uneducated and destitute. Many of their counterparts are forced to work in the sex industry.
During her visit Ms Goodall unveiled a plaque in memory of her late husband Bernard Goodall, one of the first supporters of the project, who died in 2005.
Fellow trustees and Warborough residents Wilf and Liz Eaton also unveiled a plaque in one of the accommodation blocks to mark their contribution to the centre.
Ms Goodall helped raise £25,000 of the £80,000 it cost to build the centre. She became involved in the campaign after a family friend, married to a Kenyan, highlighted the problems of orphaned girls in the country.
She said: “At last, all our efforts are beginning to pay off, and thanks to some fantastic work from our supporters and local companies, the girls can now start to build themselves a decent future, and when they leave our centre can help other, local orphan girls near Nairobi who are suffering.”
The opening ceremony was attended by more than 200 people, including the mayor of Ngoingwa, and attracted national press and TV coverage. The girls sang, danced and read poetry for the occasion.
The girls are accommodated two to a room and mentored by a house ‘mother’ who follows their development until they are ready to leave.
Businesswoman Ms Goodall said: “By building up their confidence and offering regular medical attention and schooling, the young girls get a lifeline and a decent start in life. It’s something often unavailable for many of their peers who are forced to live in degrading circumstances on the margins of society, facing abuse and exploitation in a country riven by poverty and social conflict.”
To sponsor a child at the orphanage, call Ms Goodall on 01865 258651. Any donations to the charity will be used to feed, care for and educate the orphans.
For further information, visit kenyachildrencentres.com

Sollen homosexuelle Paare Kinder adoptieren dürfen?

 

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Sollen homosexuelle Paare Kinder adoptieren dürfen?
Auch wenn bei den Christopher Street Paraden wieder schön die Sonne scheint: Schwule und Lesben in Deutschland sind noch immer nicht gleichberechtigt.
Ohne Mann hätte er gute Chancen auf eine Adoption, mit Mann weniger: Ross Antony küsst seinen Lebensgefährten.    Foto: dpa
Auch vierzig Jahre nach dem Aufruhr im "Stonewall Inn" in der New Yorker Christopher Street - Geburtststunde der modernen Nachkriegs-Homobewegung – müssen Lesben und Schwule weiterhin für ihre rechtliche Gleichstellung kämpfen. Weltweit. Und, was viele überraschen mag, auch in Deutschland: Vor allem beim Thema Kinder und deren Adoption weist das hierzulande geltende Lebenspartnerschaftsgesetz noch große Lücken in Sachen Gerechtigkeit auf.
Für gleichgeschlechtliche Paare existiert ein eingeschränktes Adoptionsrecht. Nach diesem ist nur einer der Lebenspartner berechtigt, ein fremdes Kind – beziehungsweise das des Partners (Stiefkindadoption) – zu adoptieren. Die gemeinsame Adoption ist hingegen nicht möglich. Hier werden Schwule und Lesben gegenüber heterosexuellen Paaren ganz klar benachteiligt.
 
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In anderen Ländern ist man da schon weiter. So dürfen zum Beispiel in mehreren Bundesstaaten Australiens und den USA schwule oder lesbische Pärchen problemlos ein fremdes Kind adoptieren. In Europa ist die gemeinschaftliche Adoption in Belgien, Dänemark, Großbritannien, Island, Niederlande, Norwegen, Schweden und sogar dem erzkatholischen Spanien legal.
In Deutschland wird es gleichgeschlechtlichen Paaren dagegen schwer gemacht. Besonders aus kirchlichen Kreisen ist oft mit Nachdruck zu hören: wer das Wohl des Kindes im Auge habe, dürfe Homosexuellen keine Adoption erlauben. Kinder könnten sich nicht richtig entwickeln, wenn ihnen der Einfluss der väterlichen oder mütterlichen Seite fehle, so die Argumentation – was allerdings zu beweisen wäre.
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New Orphanage Partnership

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We are excited to announce our new partnership with Gelgela Orphanage.  They are located a few miles from our Transitional Home and have already referred children to our Agency. Gelgela orphanage is expanding its projects (education & children sponsorship) in southern and northern Ethiopia. We are honored to support them in their new sponsorship program in Gojam (North Ethiopia).

Lafarge and CARE sign a three-year partnership agreement

Lafarge and CARE sign a three-year partnership agreement

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Lafarge and CARE announce their new partnership, which is a three-year agreement. For this occasion, a press conference was held today, in the presence of Arielle de Rothschild, Chair of CARE France, and Bruno Lafont, Chairman and CEO of Lafarge.

A partnership that transcends the CSR discussion

Peru is a valid option to adopt a child

Peru is a valid option to adopt a child

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Submitted by adopcionlegalperu the 2 junio a 22:52

Peru is a valid option to adopt a child, the procedures are less bureaucratic than in Spain and other countries, the shortest waiting list, the estimated time to adopt a child is 8 months, these periods may be shortened according Legal advice you opt to know the facts before making a decision, in Peru there are thousands of homeless children who are waiting for solidarity and love of a family, and thousands of desperate mothers who can not feed their children and take the sad decision to move away from them, giving them up for adoption, what happens is that there are unscrupulous profit from the misery of others, if you contact a woman who wants to give her baby up for adoption and provides you give it up for adoption, not that you this scamming her ignorance only know the procedure of adoption, the adoption in Peru does not take place between individuals that is nobody can give a child up for adoption if this first child is declared legally abandoned by a family court judge, the only institution that can give a child up for adoption in Peru is the National Secretariat for Adoptions, the advice is strictly channeled through legitimate channels and laws, there are ways to shorten the time for adoptive parents, but these are examined each case.

Friends hope I have been able to collaborate on something with you and helped to clarify their doubts about the adoption in Peru.

Banii orfanilor dispar de la Fundatia pentru copii a lui Ion Tiriac

Banii orfanilor dispar de la Fundatia pentru copii a lui Ion Tiriac

De: Iulian RINDER

Aparut in nr 14 / 02 June 2009

Categorii: ADMINISTRATIE PUBLICA

,,Poiana Soarelui” din Brasov, actuala ,,Dumbrava Minunata”, apartinand lui Ion Tiriac a fost data în judecata la Tribunalul Brasov de un orfan care a fost institutionalizat acolo pana în 2005. Motivul, conducerea institutiei a ridicat banii din sponsorizarile primite de tanara orfana fara a-i cere acordul. Teodora Larisa Zdranc, sustine ca a aflat, dupa ce a fost exclusa de la Complexul Educational, despre faptul ca era cotitulara pentru mai multe conturi aflate pe pe numele ei si pe cel al directoarei institutiei, Luminita Timpea. Fapt de altfel confirmat de Banca Nationala a Romaniei. Fata a fost fortata sa paraseasca ,,Dumbrava” pentru ca a dat informatii presei despre conditiile dure de acolo.

The Baby Merchants – Part 1

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Monday, 01 June 2009
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What looked like a nursery filled with babies was a storage, processing and shipping center for Filipino babies.

When policemen entered a house in Jala Jala, Rizal just southeast of Manila on the night of December 15, 2008, they had a warrant to arrest a suspect accused of writing bouncing checks.

The last thing they expected to find was a room full of crying, cooing newborn babies.

“We were amazed to see so many babies,” Jala Jala town police chief Larry Malaybalay told Newsbreak.

There were nine diapered infants; each snuggled in a crib with stuffed toys for company. Each crib had a name on it. The room had the look of a bright and cheery nursery.

There was only one problem: there were no parents. Instead, the house had 11 adults including seven nannies and one Singaporean woman who repeatedly told the town police chief, “I love babies.”

“We asked for papers” to explain the babies' presence. “They couldn't show any,” he said.

“We arrested them all.”

Chief Inspector Malaybalay said “I felt something was wrong. Why were there so many babies (when) that was not an orphanage? Of course we became very suspicious.”

It turned out he had grounds for suspicion. Digging into the babies' backgrounds, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) realized that the police may have stumbled on an international baby trafficking ring operating under its very nose since 2006.

DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral described the case as “very important” to her agency. She gave Newsbreak access to other agency officials.

The DSWD now suspects that what looked like a nursery filled with babies was actually something more chilling: a storage, processing and shipping center for Filipino babies.

Possibly involving more than 30 babies, it may well turn out to be the biggest and only case of highly organized and systematic baby trafficking in years. It shows how easy it is to smuggle babies out of the country, authorities said.

The operators preyed on the anguish of women, buying their unwanted babies from P2,000 to P7,000 each, some while still in their mothers' wombs. The babies were stored initially in a place in Pililla town and later in neighboring Jala Jala.

The Pililla town operation was ostensibly an orphanage called Hope for the Homeless Angels. It was registered with the Pililla government but never registered with the DSWD nor the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as required by law.

Authorities believe that while the babies were in Pililla then later transferred to Jala Jala, they were fattened up, vaccinated, provided genuine or fake birth certificates, then flown to a commercial adoption agency in Singapore owned by Irene Low Ai Lian, who was caught red-handed with the babies in that December raid in Jala Jala.

The babies lived a regimented life, their bodily functions and milk intake closely monitored. For instance, according to a schedule provided to their nannies, they all had to be exposed to sunlight by early dawn.

If the police had not found the nine babies when they did, two would have simply disappeared, flown out of Manila as hand-carried baggage by December 22, 2009, according to a handwritten schedule taped to the babies' bedroom wall. Two other babies had been flown out earlier on December 6, the same schedule showed.

Authorities are now trying to trace up to 30 babies who were processed and shipped in this manner starting 2006, Supt. Malaybalay said.

A number of babies allegedly never made it to the airport, though. “I was told babies died on them in their previous location in Pililla which they called Hope for the Homeless Angels,” claimed Voltaire Gellido, one of Low's co-accused. Gellido was included in the charge sheet since he owns the house in Jala Jala where the babies were found and he was the original object of the police manhunt.

Gellido, a former mayor of Jala Jala, claimed in an exclusive interview that Low had decided to lease his Jala Jala residence in order to move out all the babies from Pililla because three of them nearly died there of pneumonia. She referred to the former site, located in a squatter area as “that dinky place,” he said.

The babies who did reach Singapore allegedly ended up with Low's Singapore-based agency, where they were turned over to foreigners who had each paid a “processing fee” of at least P600,000 (US$12,500) per baby. Upon request, though, this fee could be discounted or paid on installment, interest free.

In comparison, legal adoptions which all have to be coursed through the Philippine government, cost at least US$3,200 in processing and other fees, according to the Inter-Country Adoption Board (ICAB), the lone state agency to authorize all foreign adoptions and accredit all foreign adoption agencies.

Low's adoption agency in Singapore, the Fox Family Services Pte. Ltd., is not in the ICAB registry and therefore not authorized to facilitate foreign adoptions of Filipino babies, said Sally Escutin, chief of the DSWD legal service.

“Singapore is a transit point,” she said. Many babies eventually ended up elsewhere like Australia or Germany, she said.

Because of this, sources told Newsbreak that the Australian Embassy had contacted Philippine authorities to learn more about the case.

A passion for babies

It was the presence of a middle-aged Singaporean matron in an obscure lake shore town, two and a half hours drive from Manila, that set off alarm bells for the police.

Slim of build with her hair in a bun, the conservatively dressed Low, 51, was the picture of bewildered sincerity. “Her allegation was that she was shouldering the costs of the orphanage in good faith,” Supt. Malaybalay recalled her telling him.

“She said to me, 'I love babies'.”

She refused to give any statement, written or verbal at the police station.

But she gave interviews, especially to Singapore media, disowning any crime. She said she was merely a visitor and a donor to the orphanage housed in Jala Jala, now renamed The Jala Jala Home for the Needy Angels, Inc. She said she was an innocent, gullible and misguided do-gooder who was conned into donating large sums to what she belatedly realized was an illegal scheme.

According to Singapore's leading daily, The Straits Times: “She said she was staying in the house to oversee its refurbishment and to distribute food and clothes to the infants while the home awaited license by the authorities.'I am not here to match babies (with couples), but as a donor to support the home,'” she said. (read The Straits Times' story Facing prosecution)

“I am not a baby-trafficker,” she also told The New Paper, Singapore's second largest, days after her arrest. “I was at the wrong place at the wrong time.” (read The New Paper's story S'porean adoption agency owner accused of baby-trafficking )

Since her arrest last December, DSWD officials have been trying to find a link between her Fox Family commercial adoption agency in Singapore and the babies recovered outside Manila.

Atty. Escutin told Newsbreak she had stumbled on a definite link while surfing in Fox Family's official website. But the website disappeared and was replaced by an “under renovation” sign. She could no longer access it, she said. She called her discovery very revealing.

Newsbreak also encountered the same “under renovation” sign and therefore phoned Low's lawyer, Reynaldo Directo, to get her side of the story. Repeated requests for a return call were ignored.

Newsbreak therefore searched the web again and managed to retrieve portions of the Fox Family website and phone numbers.

Newsbreak was just as surprised as Irene Low was when she personally answered one of the numbers posted on the internet. “I'm somewhere around (the Philippines) but how did you get my number?” she asked.

When told it was from her website, she said, “but my website is no longer up.” Later, she said, “I have pulled out my website as you know until my resolution is clear.”

Out on bail but barred from leaving the country, she said, “I'm still waiting for a resolution. It's not over yet. I'm just waiting. Don't know why it's taking so long. I don't know if it's good or bad.”

“I did it out of my heart....That's what my passion is. I want to help people. I help kids and I help families....I just wanted to (help), because I've adopted two kids and they were wonderful.”

She sounded fragile and hurt - “It (the case) just affects me emotionally. I just can't get back on again until everything is clear.”

She was also very wary. She refused to discuss the case and told Newsbreak to talk to her lawyer because “he's got all the right words.” 

Newsbreak asked her whether she was getting her babies from Pililla and Jala Jala. She flatly denied this. “I'm not getting babies from there. I don't like these questions because it may implicate me from what I'm saying. Not that I'm guilty, I'm not.”

Her denial ran contrary to the introductory statement posted on her company website which said: “Fox Family Services Adoption Centre was established primarily to find good families for unwanted and abandoned infants and toddlers in the Philippines and elsewhere and to assist you in finding a child.”

When Newsbreak pointed that out, she said, “Well, it is not only in Philippines. In Philippines basically, in fact, I'm working with the DSWD.”

When asked whether she was referring to Maria Lourdes Martinez, the social welfare officer of the town of Pililla who is her co-accused in the case, she said, “Sorry, you've got to speak with the lawyer about this.”

Pressed further which DSWD official she had been working with, she said, “I really do not know if I should tell you at this point in time.”

Low also made the assertion that her adoption agency in Singapore could operate freely in the Philippines without need of accreditation from the Philippine government.

“It's not necessary for any adoption agency to be accredited...by any government,” she said.

She gave Newsbreak this parting advice: “Before you write a story get your facts right, get a lawyer. You don't just get half a story from me.”

This article was made possible with the generous support of the American people through the United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat trafficking in Persons and The Asia Foundation. The contents are the  responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Department of State of the United States or The Asia Foundation.

SCANDAL ROM?NO-GERMAN PENTRU O FETI?? "ADOPTAT?" DIN TIMI?

SCANDAL ROM?NO-GERMAN PENTRU O FETI?? "ADOPTAT?" DIN TIMI?

Copil sechestrat de 3 ani, cu acte false

Un scandal diplomatic este pe cale s? izbucneasc? între Ro mânia ?i Germania, din cauza unei feti?e de 3 ani, care este ?inut? ilegal în Germania, înc? de la vârsta de 4 luni. În timp ce autorit??ile ?i presa german? caut? ?api isp??itori în Ro mânia ?i încalc? legile europene privind circula?ia ?i g?z duirea minorilor români în alte ??ri UE, autorit??ile române dau din col? în col?, promi?ând c? feti?a va fi readus? acas?, de?i familia german? la care locuie?te refuz? s? o predea.

de Mircea Opris

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Copil sechestrat de 3 ani, cu acte false

Jurnalul National Copil sechestrat de 3 ani, cu acte false Un scandal diplomatic este pe cale sa izbucneasca intre Ro mania si Germania, din cauza unei fetite de 3 ani, care este tinuta ilegal in Germania, inca de la varsta de 4 luni. In timp ce autoritatile si presa germana cauta tapi ispasitori in Ro mania si incalca legile europene privind circulatia si gaz duirea minorilor romani in alte tari UE, autoritatile romane dau din colt in colt, promitand ca fetita va fi readusa acasa, desi familia germana la care locuieste refuza sa o predea.Justitia si presa din landul Bavaria duc un razboi mediatic si psihologic împotriva unei banatence de etnie germana, Estera Schweitzer, care are în localitatea timiseana Giulvaz fundatia "Annelise Heim", unde creste legal copii primiti în plasament de la Directia pentru Protectia Copilului Timis. În timp ce fetita se afla practic sechestrata în Germania si parintii naturali o cer înapoi, justitia din landul Bavaria le-a condamnat pentru trafic de minori pe Estera Schweitzer si pe fiica acesteia Annelise Jugu. Incompetenta si anumite interese, atât din partea autoritatilor române cât si a celor germane, le-au scos tapi ispasitori pe cele doua femei, în timp ce fetita a fost dusa în Germania de catre tatal natural al acesteia si de catre "mama adoptiva" din Germania, Korina Biemuller-Meyer. Din 2006 pâna acum minora se afla în Germania fara forme legale. Autoritatile române dau asigurari ca aceasta se va întoarce acasa, în timp ce autoritatile germane vad doar ceea ce le intereseaza: mai putin statutul legal al fetitei si mai mult condamnarea unei "retele de traficanti de copii" care nu exista în realitate.MEDIA GERMAN? "MÂNJESTE" ROMÂNIAÎn luna aprilie, televiziunile germane si austriece au difuzat un reportaj realizat de catre o echipa de jurnalisti de la Spiegel TV. Materialul prezinta tendentios realitatile din Giulvaz, satul unde s-a nascut fetita, cu scopul de a sensibiliza autoritatile si publicul german, pentru pastrarea copilului în Germania. Interviul cu tatal natural al minorei este trucat: acesta a dus fata în Germania de buna voie si a semnat o declaratie notariala pentru ca fiica sa sa poata sta în Germania pâna în 1 iunie 2010, însa în filmul facut de Spiegel TV el apare plângând, sarutând fotografia fetitei si implorând sa îi fie adus înapoi copilul. Ima ginile de ilustratie din Giulvaz prezinta doar mormane de gunoi si copii desculti pe strada. Alte materiale din presa regionala bavareza sustin si ele ca fata trebuie pastrata în Germania, cu toate ca pâna si autoritatile pentru protectia copilului din tara respectiva recunosc ca adoptia din alt stat UE este ilegala iar fetita ar trebui sa se întoarca, conform legilor românesti si comunitare, la familia naturala din România. Pentru a distrage atentia, judecatoria din orasul german Bad Kissingen demareaza un proces împotriva femeii care are fundatia de întrajutorare din România, Estera Schweitzer, si a fiicei acesteia din Germania, Annelise, si le condamna, în baza unor probe neconcludente, pentru trafic de minori în vederea adoptiei, lucru ilegal. Interesant este ca pedepsele primite sunt foarte blânde: amenzi de câteva sute de euro si munca în folosul comunitatii, tocmai din cauza ca probele procuraturii sunt documente eliberate de Politia Româna de Frontiera, acte care se contrazic între ele. Estera Schweitzer si fiica acestei Annelise recunosc ca au ajutat parintii naturali ai fetitei Nicoleta Adriana, pe Trif Viorel si Gabriela Guta, sa intre în legatura cu Korina Biemuller-Meyer, de nationalitate germana, care ulterior a devenit "mama adoptiva" si acum refuza sa predea copilul autoritatilor pentru a fi repatriat. Razboiul mediatic si cel din justitie se justifica prin implicarea unor personaje politice din Bavaria: familia care tine fetita în Germania se afla în relatii de prietenie cu Barbara Stamm, presedinte al Parlamentului landului Bavaria, fost ministru pe probleme sociale si membru marcant al partidului CSU, aflat la putere în landul respectiv.Stamm este cunoscuta în România pentru activitatea umanitara din ultimii 20 de ani. Ea ajuta la finantarea mai multor fundatii româno-germane de caritate, a construit un centru pentru copii în dificultate lânga Iasi, în valoare de 1,5 milioane de euro, iar în judetul Neamt a fost de nu mai putin de 78 de ori la Centrul de recuperare pentru persoanele cu handicap de la Pastraveni, un alt proiect în care este implicata. Cea mai puternica fundatie cu care lucreaza în România si pe care a fondat-o este însa Fundatia Bavaria pentru România, care a adus în România, cel putin la nivel declarativ, milioane de euro pentru sustinerea copiilor si a persoanelor cu handicap de la noi. Implicarea Barbarei Stamm în cazul minorei sechestrate în Germania se explica prin prietenia cu familia Biemuller. Aceasta a cerut în scris ajutorul politicienei germane pentru a pastra fetita românca în Germania. Un document din corespondenta acestora atesta legaturile dintre ei. Într-o scrisoare trimisa familie germane de catre Bernd Frabitius, avocat si asistent al Barbarei Stamm, acesta comunica familiei Bimuller ca aceasta are în vedere cazul dar ca legal nu pot fi ajutati. De altfel, chiar "mama adoptiva" a relatat reporterilor Jurnalului National despre legatura cu politiciana Barbara Stamm. "O cunoastem prin sotul meu. Ea m-a ajutat si domnul Fabritius, asistentul ei în România. Mi-a spus ca va face ce poate, doar nu foarte multe. Barbara Stamm ne-a spus ca ne ajuta doar din punct de vedere umanitar dar nu politic", ne-a declarat Korina Biemuller. Aceasta se considera victima unei escrocherii puse la cale de parintii fetitei si de cea care a pus-o în contact cu familia, Estera Schweitzer. În reclamatiile la politiile româna si germana se speculeaza ca minora ar fi fost cumparata la un pret între 6.000 si 10.000 de euro. Korina Biemuller ne-a declarat însa ca toate cheltuielile facute de ea, cu obtinerea actelor în România, bilete de avion si bani trimisi catre parintii fetei în România nu depasesc suma de 3.000 de euro.PRESIUNE PE SUSPEC?II DE SERVICIUAsistenta maternala Estera Schweitzer si fiica acesteia a pus în legatura parintii Nicoletei Trif cu Korina Biemuller la sfârsitul anului 2006, când aceasta a venit în România. Atunci, parintii fetitei, împreuna cu cetateana germana Korinna Biemulller, au cazut de acord sa o dea pe micuta Nicoleta, atunci în vârsta de 4 luni, pentru o perioada de jumatate de an, în care sa fie dusa în Germania, pe motiv ca avea nevoie de tratament medical din cauza unor probleme la solduri. Copilul a iesit din România împreuna cu tatal natural, Viorel Trif, si cu Korinna Biemuller, la data de 4 decembrie 2006, cu o cursa aeriana Carpatair, pe ruta Timisoara - Frankfurt. Copilul a iesit pe baza pasaportului si a unei declaratii notariale prin care parintii naturali erau de acord ca fetita sa stea în Germania pentru doua saptamâni. Ulterior, comisarul Marian Croitoru si comisarul-sef Stefan Florea de la Politia de Frontiera Timis trimit în 2 octombrie 2007 o informare catre ofiterii de legatura ai Politiei Criminale Germane de la Ambasada Germaniei la Bucuresti, o informare prin care avertizeaza ca Estera Schweitzer, sotul acesteia, precum si fiicele Annelise si Cristina Jugu, ambele cu cetatenie si domiciliu în Germania "sunt coordonatori ai unui grup organizat specilizat în derularea de activitati de trafic ilegal de minori catre Germania... Persoanele implicate actioneaza sub acoperirea de asistenti maternali si îsi desfasoara activitatea în mai multe sate din judetul Timis". Singurul exemplu din acest document este cel al micutei Nicoleta Adriana Trif, care însa a fost scoasa din tara de tatal ei natural împreuna cu cetateana germana Korina Biemuller, la care fata se afla si acum, dupa 3 ani de la plecare. Pe baza acestei sesizari a Politiei de Frontiera Timis, politistii criminalisti germani pornesc o ancheta împotriva familiei Schweitzer si a fiicelor Annelise si Cristina Jugu. Ulterior Estera Schweitzer si fiica Annelise Jugu sunt condamnate, în ianuarie 2009, la judecatoria din Bad Kissingen, pentru trafic de minori, în baza acestui document al Politiei de Frontiera si a unei hârtii scrise de mâna, semnata de parintii fetei si de Korina Biemuller, prin care acestia o încredintau celei din urma pentru a locui în Germania si pentru o posibila adoptie. Nici una dintre cele doua condamnate nu au nici o legatura cu aceasta întelegere scrisa, neautentificata oficial. Culmea, la un an dupa ce politia timiseana de frontiera acuza întreaga familiei Schweitzer-Jugu pentru retea de traficanti de copii, în 2008 aceeasi doi ofiteri români trimit catre autoritatile germane un act oficial prin care mentioneaza ca în urma cercetarilor nu se adeveresc suspiciunile de trafic de copii împotriva familiei Schweitzer-Jugu. Aceeasi constatare de nevinovatie o confirma personal si chestorul Nelu Pop, seful IGPF, printr-o scrisoare semnata personal. Instanta germana din Bad Kissingen nu ia în considerare acest act oficial, atunci când se pronunta. Acum, Annelise Jugu primeste telefoane de amenintare, are probleme la serviciu si chiar si sora ei Cristina Jugu, neimplicata în acest caz, are de suferit. "Imaginea noastra a fost prezentata în toata Germania ca fiind niste infractoare. Îmi pot pierde slujba în orice moment, nimeni nu mai vrea sa lucreze cu noi si ne vedem vietile ruinate. Cine ne va despagubi? Mai grav este ca primim tot felul de amenintari si toti ne trateaza ca pe niste criminali. Presa si politia ne vâneaza, ne opresc fara motiv si cauta cu orice pret sa ne faca sa cedam", ne-a declarat Annelise Jugu.INTIMID?RI SI USI ÎNCHISEFamilia Schweitzer-Jugu primeste telefoane de amenintare iar politia îi opreste aproape zilnic pe motive de controale de rutina. Telefoanele sunt ascultate iar echipe de filaj misuna în jurul resedintelor acestora. Chiar si reporterul Jurnalului National, aflat în documentare la fata locului, a observat aceste lucruri si chiar a fost oprit abuziv de doua echipaje de politie, pe o sosea izolata, pentru un control de rutina, la care i-au fost veri ficate masina dar si aparatura foto si video. Motivul politistilor a fost acela ca urmaresc o banda de hoti de panouri solare, cu toate ca respectiva banda de hoti fusese anihilata cu o luna si jumatate înainte. Sosirea Jurnalului National în Bavaria a fost semnalata imediat în presa locala care a cerut date despre ziarist la Consiliul Regional din Bad Kissingen. De altfel, purtatorul de cuvânt al institutiei, Stefan Seufert, a fost singurul oficial care a acceptat un interviu cu ziarul nostru. "Cazul este unul complicat iar institutia noastra nu are competenta sa se pronunte. Perso nal nu stiu ce trebuie facut, dar stiu ca cel mai important este sa se faca ce e mai bine pentru acest copil, fara a încalca legile nationale si europene", ne-a declarat acesta. Toti ceilalti oficiali cu care am încercat sa stam de vorba, de la politie, judecatorie, Agentia pentru Protectia Copilului nu au putut fi contactati telefonic sau gasiti la birou pe parcursul întregii saptamâni de documentare. PROCES DE TIP STALINISTInteresant, chiar în ziua în care politia verifica cu zel jurnalistul român, judecatorul de caz, Dr Matthias Goebhardt, a acceptat o convorbire telefonica. "Sunt sigur ca ce vi s-a întâmplat este o confuzie din parte politiei si nu un abuz, chiar daca politistii nu s-au prezentat. Referitor la procesul privind traficarea minorei din România, cazul Schweitzer-Jugu, acesta nu e gata. Noi am luat o decizie de condamnare dar ele au facut recurs la instanta superioara. Noi consideram ca doamna Schweitzer a facut ceva gresit ca a adus fetita pentru adoptie în Germania. Legal nu e posibil sa se adopte copilul si atunci am avut un document prin care se vorbea despre adoptie. Aceasta e una dintre probe. În plus, exista un act notarial prin care fata poate sta în Germania pâna în 2010. Hârtia de mâna prin care se face adoptia între Trif si Biemuller nu e oficiala dar e facuta, credem noi, de Schweitzer. Nu am chemat pentru audieri parintii naturali ai copilului, penturu ca aveam declaratia lor notariala si pentru noi acest lucru este destul ca proba. Daca Biemuller tine copilul de prea mult timp, Protectia Copilului trebuie sa se sesizeze si atunci vom vedea daca o vom pedepsi si pe Biemuller. Nu putem sa o judecam fara o sesizare a celor de la Tribunalul districtual. Politic, ministrii de Externe din România si Germania vor trebui sa gaseasca solutia legala unde va merge copilul sau daca va ramâne în Germania", ne-a declarat judecatorul de caz Matthias Goebhardt. În realitate, la procesul de la judecatorie s-au prezentat doar probele care incrimeneaza familia Schweitzer-Jugu, adica o scrisoare de mâna între parintii fetei si Korina Biemuller, act fara valoare juridica. De asemenea, tribunalul german nu a luat în considerare faptul ca împuternicirea nota riala prin care copilul poate ramâne pâna în 2010 în Germania, act facut la biroul notarial Ciorâca-Maghiaru din Timisoara este ilegal, deoarece împuternicirea s-a facut fara ca fetita Nicoleta Adriana sau Korina Biemueller, carei i se încredinteaza fetita, sa fie de fata. Presa nationala germana s-a autosesizat despre caz si despre proces. "Este clar ca la noi în Germania justitia judeca cetatenii pe doua categorii: nemtii nascuti în Germania si nemtii second-hand, adica cei care au venit emigrând din alte parti, cum sunt Schweitzer si Jugu. Indiferent ce probe ar avea, tot nu li se da dreptate. În plus, presa, din Bavaria este controlata politic de catre partidul aflat la putere în acest land, iar mama adoptiva este o prietena a doamnei Barbara Stamm. Asta spune multe. Scandalul se va amplifica, fiind chiar înainte de alegerile pentru europarlamentare", ne-a declarat un redactor de la cel mai mare cotidian national din Germania. Autoritatile române se trezesc cel mai greu. 2009-06-01

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