Italian couple adopts 7-year-old girl in Patna

PATNA: An Italian couple on Tuesday, adopted a 7-year-old girl Kristina from Vishisht Dattak Grahan Sansthan, an orphanage, being operated under the aegis of the District Child Protection Unit.

Kristina, who was found wandering at the Patna railway station by a police officer in 2019, was handed over to the couple Christina Margotta and Luna Celestini by assistant director, District Child Protection Unit, Uday Kumar Jha, after getting an order from the Family Court, Patna on Tuesday.

The couple completed all the procedures according to the provisions of the Adoption Guide 2022, issued by the Union ministry of women and child development, Government of India.They applied for the adoption of a child about 3 years ago. Kristina was registered on the adoption site in 2019 after newspaper advertisements failed to locate her biological parents.

Any couple with sound physical and mental health is qualified to adopt a child, if they have been happily married for at least two years and have given their mutual consent for adoption.

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