404 files of international adoptions disappeared without trace

It is a story about international adoptions, which in the 90s were made in an impressive number and that made their mark on the image of Romania. At the time of the accession negotiations, from the beginning of the 2000s, it was necessary for Romania to amend its legislation and close the series without staving off the sending of orphaned children or without possibilities across borders. One of the most difficult conditions to meet was the stopping of international adoptions, and the rapporteur for Romania, Baroness Emma Nicholson, invoked then the "rule of law" which must be respected also regarding adoptions. Romania changed its vision, but the era of the 90s left 404 international adoption files that disappeared. Entirely.

On February 20, 1997, the management of the Bucharest Tribunal, provided by Judge Viorel Ro?, notified the Police about the disappearance from the court archive of 248 civil files regarding international adoptions.

The Minister of Justice has since ordered an extensive control at the Bucharest Court and the court inspectors of the superior court, the Bucharest Court of Appeal, finds that 404 civil adoption files have disappeared: 173 from 1990 to 1993 and 231 from 1994 to 1995 . With the files, several meeting conditions from 1994-1995, meeting maps and records of records disappeared.

"We asked for a verification and a report on the situation created. The report was made and afterwards I think a criminal complaint was made. Unfortunately, as far as I can remember, the criminal investigation did not lead to any result, that is, it did not find the perpetrators ”, declared Valeriu Stoica, former Minister of Justice.

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Harry Mills was taken from his family twice.

As a boy, he was removed from his parents on Yindjibarndi country in Western Australia's Pilbara region and placed in the Carnarvon Mission more than 700 kilometres away.

In the mid-1970s, as a young man with a wife and three children, he was working in the Gascoyne region when a senior elder connected to the Yindjibarndi mob told him he must return to the north to be with family and learn their culture.

Mr Mills refused, and says he cried for his wife and kids as he was bundled into the back of a Bedford truck.

Olivia Atkocaitis, 20, says she survived 14 years of abuse and servitude at the hands of her adoptive parents before escaping at 15

A New Hampshire couple convicted on criminal charges after allegedly keeping their adopted daughter in a locked basement and subjecting her to years of torture and "servitude" are now facing a lawsuit for allegedly violating her 13th Amendment rights. 

Chinese native Olivia Atkocaitis, now 20, allegedly dug her way out of a filthy "dungeon room" in 2018 at the age of 15 using a bottle cap, according to a lawsuit obtained by Fox News Digital.

"This lawsuit is potentially one of the scariest and gut wrenching experiences of my life," Atkocaitis said. "Day after day, I watched the people who claimed to be responsible for my safety and protection still not own up the fact that they failed me. I was a child, and I was not protected. I was left in the house by the same people who claim it’s not their fault."

NEW BOSTON, N.H. — A New Hampshire couple who reported their 15-year-old daughter missing in September is now charged with kidnapping and child endangerment.

According to investigators, the couple held a minor captive in the basement of their New Boston, NH home for more than two months.

Police say Denise and Thomas Atkocaitis are the child's legal guardians and had been homeschooling her.

Investigators say the girl was kept inside an eight by eight-foot room in the basement of the Atkocaitis' home on Helena Drive in a rural part of the state. They say the only lighting came from one window which, according to police, was covered with wire mesh.

The CBI filed a chargesheet against nine people for alleged child trafficking, and the sale and purchase of newborns. The agency had rescued five babies during searches across the National Capital Region, Haryana and Rajasthan following which a case was registered on April 5.

This is the first chargesheet in the case and further investigation is underway. In the first raids at seven locations in April, the CBI rescued two male newborns – 1.5 days old and 15 days old – along with a one-month-old female. The agency also seized several documents along with Rs 5.5 lakh in cash.

According to the CBI, the accused through advertisements on social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp would be connected with childless couples looking to adopt. ⁠They purchased the infants from parents, who were economically downtrodden, the agency said.

⁠Investigators said the accused would sell the newborns to hopeful parents across India for Rs 4 lakh to Rs 6 lakh per infant, giving them fake documentation related to birth and adoption. They also went to the extent of posing as the babies’ biological parents, they said.

Of the nine chargesheeted, eight accused were earlier arrested and sent to judicial custody. Police identified them as Neeraj from Sonipat; Indu Pawar, Aslam, Pooja Kashyap, Ritu, Anjali and Kavita from Delhi; and Hari Singh from Rajasthan. Another accused was subsequently traced and identified as Arti Naik from Rajasthan.

Chandigarh: The Punjab govt is establishing adoption agencies in every district of the state to simplify the process of child adoption and creating 172 new posts to strengthen the infrastructure for the adoption.Social security, women and child development minister Dr Baljit Kaur has instructed all the additional deputy commissioners to ensure that child adoption applications received in the state are processed within the stipulated time. Kaur said the department is providing financial assistance of Rs 26 lakh per year to various non-governmental organisations involved in the adoption process. Over 300 destitute and orphaned children through the department's proper implementation of the child adoption process.

I was able to give a story, a contour, to my life, and finally I no longer feel empty or in limbo when I think about my origins, who I am.

Anita Godelli - © Photo Council of Europe

Background 

Anita Godelli never knew her mother. Abandoned at birth, she was placed in an orphanage and then taken in by a foster family.

Samarpan Programme for Adoption, Research Counselling and Consultancy. - ANNUAL REPORT 2016

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TARRANT COUNTY — Disturbing new revelations about an adoption attorney accused of trying to purchase unborn children from pregnant women in jail. 

Documents show how much was paid to female inmates in the Tarrant County Jail and messages revealing the pressure they appeared to be getting from the attorney to give up their babies. 

At least two female inmates in the Tarrant County Jail were allegedly given hundreds of dollars and promised more to sell their unborn babies to a Texas adoption agency illegally. 

Jody Hall is out on bond after being arrested and charged with the crime of trying to buy or sell a child.