Botswana gov’t embroiled in child adoption row

Publication date: 3 September 2014

Posted by: APA Posted date : September 3, 2014 at 8:50 am UTC 65 views In: Politics

The Botswana Network on the Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) said Wednesday it is taking the Botswana government to court over the adoption of a six-year-old child by a South African woman, Deborah Kirstern Mey.Briefing the media, a BONELA spokesperson accused the Botswana government of abating child trafficking and questioned the circumstances under which the child was adopted and taken out of the country on August 29.

The biological parents, Joshua July of Tsamaya and Annah Kopo, alleged that the child was removed from their care by members of the police service and some social welfare officers under direct instructions of a senior government official.

The parents are not happy because the adoptive mother and the child have now relocated to Qatar in the United Arab Emirates.

Attorney Tawanda Bobodhla, who is representing the parents, said the adoption assessment report by social welfare workers had condemned the adoption.

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Countries: Botswana